Civil servants DID help with trans policy

THE SNP Government has admitted that it was involved in writing up transgender guidance for the NHS in Scotland.

- David Walker

Ministers, including FM John Swinney, have insisted the administration had nothing to do with policy which allows biological men to use women-only facilities.

But a freedom of information request revealed that civil servants helped to write new guidance on the use of "preferred" lavatories and changing rooms.

They were part of a policy development group charged with drafting a new "gender transitioning guide" for the NHS.

This document claimed that telling a trans person that they cannot use their "preferred facilities" could amount to "unlawful discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment."