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Lisa Mackenzie

@lnmackenzie1

Feb 3

It seems likely that, amongst those MSPs speaking in today's debate to express their opposition to Ash Regan's bill, there will be sex buyers. The question is: will they reveal their 'lived experience'? #unbuyable dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…

"We cannot punish 'clients'", says Green MSP Maggie Chapman. Clients being (predominantly) men buying sex.

Ruth Maguire MSP asks Chapman if sex work is work, should we be offering it as an option to job seekers.

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Lisa Mackenzie

@lnmackenzie1

Jul 16, 2025

https://twitter.com/holyroodmandy/status/1945428059772838166

She advised that it "could be discriminatory" to exclude Upton from a female changing room and suggested it "might be worth" having a conversation to ask if the trans employee (Dr Upton) was "open about their trans status".

https://twitter.com/holyroodmandy/status/1945428059772838166

Jane Russell KC has just asked Bumba to look at the policies of several English NHS Trusts and other Scottish health boards which also advised that trans staff could use facilities based on their gender identity. "Everyone else was doing it" seems to be the defence...?

"I would have been Googling" to find out about other policies, says Bumba.

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Lisa Mackenzie

@lnmackenzie1

May 15, 2025

The Royal College of Nursing (itself an employer) admits, in March 2025, that it has only just become of the 1992 regulations which compel employers to provide single sex facilities for their employees. christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease…

The RCN - with this revelatory new information (insert sarcasm) - writes to County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, who...do nothing.

(Missing word in original tweet. Should read 'become aware'.)

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Lisa Mackenzie

@lnmackenzie1

Mar 21, 2025

It's possible now to review the webcast of yesterday's meeting of the City of Edinburgh council. Cllr Staniforth's motion on Edinburgh Women's Aid is item 8(e) and you can click on the list on the right to jump straight to the right place in proceedings. edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/we…

A few observations... SNP, Liberal Democrat and Green councillors all referred to 'cis' women. Labour and Conservative councillors did not.

Labour councillor and council leader Jane Meagher was notably the only councillor to state clearly that providers should be able to offer single sex spaces and services for women *as a matter of policy*.

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Lisa Mackenzie

@lnmackenzie1

Mar 12, 2025

Motion tabled for next week's meeting of @Edinburgh_CC calls for council to "review its future SLAs and contracts with service providers offering support to people facing domestic abuse and sexual violence to make it clear that we expect services to be fully trans inclusive".

https://x.com/mbmpolicy/status/1896480516834230674

The motion has been tabled in response to the recent announcement by Edinburgh Women's Aid's decision to exclude all males from its adult group work services and shared refuge spaces, including its 24 hours refuge.

https://x.com/mbmpolicy/status/1896480516834230674

The motion has been tabled by Scottish Green councillor Alex Staniforth. Full papers for the meeting of the council on 20 March can be found here. democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocument…

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Lisa Mackenzie

@lnmackenzie1

Mar 11, 2025

Vic Valentine of Scottish Trans has told a parliamentary committee that the advice and guidance they give to public bodies is not legal advice.

Vic Valentine claims not to understand what Pam Gosal MSP means by policies based on gender self-identification, despite Scottish Trans having successfully lobbied many public bodies to introduce such policies.