The staff member is responsible for “course development” and “quality assurance” in the organization.
“Highly political and discriminatory material”
Susan Smith, director of the For Women in Scotland campaign, said it was “shocking” to see a member of the organization “strongly promote political and discriminatory material that contradicts UK law”.
She added: “How can women believe that civil servants, potentially including those drafting legislation such as gender mainstreaming, care about our rights when they are trained to call us offensive names and tell us that are we hate groups?
“On top of that, the material manages to be very offensive and inaccurate for gays, transsexuals and those with DSD [differences in sexual development].
“Perhaps the Scottish Government thinks it is above the Equality Act and other workplace discrimination laws – they are not.
“An apology and a review are urgently needed, although we imagine that many women’s rights activists will be hard pressed to ever trust this government.
Other allegations made in the document are that “all research” shows that “there is virtually no difference” between the sporting performance of transgender women and natural women, which is inaccurate.
It is further stated that the idea that men and women have “inherent, unique and natural” separate attributes based on biology is an “outdated understanding of gender”.
Calls on non-trans people to recognize their “cisgender privilege”, argues that the biology and genetics of trans people correspond to their gender identity, and says that people should ask for a person’s pronouns in “everyday conversations” because it is ” it is impossible to know one’s gender just by looking at them. “
Insiders claim that the training is conducted by an “informal” network of employees
Insiders from the Scottish Government tried to distance the decentralized administration from the document, arguing that the training was not mandatory and was run by an “informal” network of staff.
However, the network has been widely promoted to government officials on the Scottish Government’s platforms, and Leslie Evans, formerly Mrs Sturgeon’s chief mandarin, has boasted that she has helped shape domestic policies and enjoys “active support from our top leaders. “
The Scottish Government has faced repeated accusations that it has been wrongfully influenced by radical transgender ideology and is currently passing legislation through Holyrood that will allow Scots to declare their own legal gender.
The UK government has ruled out a similar system for England and Wales, and it is understood that ministers are considering refusing to recognize Scottish gender recognition certificates issued under the new SNP approach.
The email directing employees to the Transsexual Dictionary had leaked to an online Scottish nationalist blog that once supported the SNP but is now hostile to the party led by Ms. Sturgeon.
Other claims in the dictionary are that it is possible to be “polygender”, which means that one can have multiple gender identities at once, and that colonialism has “erased or destroyed” “local understandings of gender and attraction.”
It is stated that “gender-inappropriate people”, especially children, can be described as “gifted” to reflect “how incredible it can be to have a unique and / or non-gender standard”.
A spokesman for the Scottish Government said: “It was an informal awareness-raising event held during the month of pride and during working hours, led by members of the LGBTI + network community, which colleagues can choose to attend on a voluntary basis.
“This was not an official training event for the Scottish Government and is not part of SG’s Diversity and Inclusion curriculum.
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