Mick Hartley

That "trans genocide" line is catching on:

A Civil service diversity adviser has been blasted for linking women's rights groups to the far-Right and suggesting they are calling for trans genocide.

Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, the transgender ambassador for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), claimed fascists giving Nazi salutes had been 'welcomed' on rallies by so-called gender critical campaigners abroad.

She alleged that some leaders of the movement – who believe biological sex cannot be changed – have made 'statements of a genocidal nature'.

And she called on her trade union to 'work with anti-fascist groups' to show 'what genocide can look like' within the 'anti-trans narrative'.

Her explosive comments were made in an emergency motion tabled at last week's conference in Brighton of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which is behind a wave of recent strikes in the Passport Office, DVLA and HMRC, and is now considering industrial action over the Government's Rwanda migrant policy.

The motion called on delegates to note that 'the presence of far-Right activists at the gender critical rallies in Australia was welcomed by the organisers even when they gave Nazi salutes', as well as the 'statements of a genocidal nature made by some'.

Her claims over the Australian rally have been disputed, with organisers saying the far-Right group gatecrashed the event to cause trouble and were let through by police.

Ms Tweedale tabled the motion in her role as the union rep for the DWP branch in Bradford, but she is also the department's national diversity ambassador on trans issues.

"She" is, of course, a man.