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.

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". 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.

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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.

Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman on @LBC just now said that for the UK Government "even to threaten to act is entirely inappropriate" and they would be "playing roughshod with devolution". #GRRBill Tom Swarbrick asked her if she thought children as young as eight should be able to change legal gender, to which she replied "we should be exploring that".