Police calendar's one day for women… two months for trans
The list of key days - which also includes Asexuality Day and Lesbian Visibility Day - was shared with officers and staff allowing them to 'seek further information on them if they wish'.
Last Wednesday saw International Drag Day and Monday last week was Non-Binary People's Day – while International Pronouns Day is on October 20.
Not all of the dates are 'marked nationally by the organisation' - but officers and civilian staff can request more detail about them, potentially allowing them to request permission to mark specific dates in the workplace.
Last night Dr Kath Murray, of gender-critical think-tank Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, said: 'Police Scotland's 'inclusion' calendar celebrates just one day for women, compared to two months for transgender causes.
'The force also signposts days celebrating drag queens, pronouns, and fringe gender identities.
'It has no formal representation for women, nor does it recognise the [gender-critical] Police SEEN network.'
The calendar opens with LGBT History Month in February, with Purple Friday marked as the last Friday in February, a day when people can show their solidarity with LGBTIQ+ people by wearing the colour purple.
Transgender Day of Visibility is on March 31, with Asexuality Day on April 6 and Lesbian Visibility Day on April 26.
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia is on May 17, while Pansexual Visibility Day is on May 24.
Pansexuality is defined as a sexual orientation characterised by attraction to people regardless of their gender identity.
Transgender Awareness Week runs from November 13-19, while Transgender Day of Remembrance is on November 20.
The row follows Police Scotland's decision not to allow officers in uniform to take part in a Pride march in Glasgow on Saturday.
It came after a High Court judgment south of the Border last week which found this was a breach of impartiality, following a judicial review.
Last month Police Scotland was accused of promoting trans ideology by putting up virtue-signalling gender posters in a station.
The placards explain the words and phrases by going through each letter of the alphabet - for example 'G' is for 'gender identity'.
Police Scotland has also been criticised over delays in implementing a separate Supreme Court judgment in April which stated that the words 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
Last year Chief Constable Jo Farrell said the public and MSPs should be 'assured' that a man who commits rape or serious sexual assault will always be recorded as male.
In March, the Mail revealed that this stance, which campaigners said was a major policy U-turn, was not communicated to officers, sparking claims that police may have misled parliament.
And last week the Mail revealed that no one will face action over a 'deeply offensive' police document which compared gender-critical feminists to Nazis.
Police Scotland was at the centre of a row in May after staff were told the concept of 'gender binary' - the belief there are only two genders - was a 'key feature' of the Nazis' ideology.
The document was posted on the force's intranet by a serving constable who did not need authorisation to do so at the time.
Last night Scottish Tory equalities spokesman Tess White said: 'Hard-working Scots expect Police Scotland to be focused on tackling crime, not a woke inclusion calendar.
'It's just common sense that keeping people safe should be the top priority for the force.'
Commenting further on the calendar row, Dr Murray said: 'There are serious questions here as to whether Police Scotland would pass the impartiality test set out in the judgment against the Chief Constable of Northumbria Police issued this week, in relation to its participation in a Pride march.'
A Police Scotland spokesman said: 'These dates are part of Police Scotland's inclusion calendar and, while not all are marked nationally by the organisation, listing them allows colleagues to seek further information on them if they wish.'
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