Minutes of a Scottish government working group set up to consider revisions to allegedly unlawful gender self-ID policies in place across the public sector reveal it was initially led by Louise Macdonald, director-general for communities.
Macdonald, then working in the charity sector, was hand-picked by Sturgeon to co-chair the then first minister’s independent taskforce on women and girls before joining the government in 2022 as director-general for the economy.
Macdonald displays “she/her’ pronouns on her online CV and has previously posted online in support of Transgender Day of Rememberance, an event some gender critical activists claim is designed to spread unevidenced claims that trans people face heightened risk of murder.
The campaign group For Women Scotland said Macdonald’s actions and links to Sturgeon, who this week claimed Scotland had “collectively lost its mind” on trans issues, suggested she was not an appropriate figure to lead the group.
John Swinney, the first minister, has said the group chaired by Macdonald is taking forward detailed work on how to implement the Supreme Court ruling, which found that for the purposes of UK equalities law sex is based on biology.
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