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Lisa Mackenzie vs. transgender people

Lisa Mackenzie is a Scottish researcher, sex segregationist, and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Lisa Noelle Mackenzie was born in December 1971.

In November 2018 Mackenzie co-founded Murray Blackburn Mackenzie with Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Kath Murray. It was incorporated in 2022. A self-published biography on their site states:

Lisa Mackenzie is a former civil servant in the UK Government where she worked as a government communications specialist in a number of Whitehall departments, including the Department for Social Security and Home Office, as well as the Commission for Racial Equality. She was seconded to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food during the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. After returning to Scotland, she worked as a freelance researcher for the Scottish Parliament’s Futures Forum. She was policy and public affairs adviser to penal reform campaign group Howard League Scotland for five years. More recently she worked for the Royal College of Nursing. She has a degree in Modern Chinese and an MSc in Policy Studies.

Anti-transgender activism

Mackenzie contributed a chapter with Alice Sullivan and Kath Murray titled “Why Do We Need Data on Sex?” to the 2023 anti-trans book Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader.

References

Davidson, Gina (24th Jun 2021). Nurses union accused of ‘hounding out’ Scottish policy officer over trans rights work. The Scotsman https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/nurses-union-accused-of-hounding-out-policy-officer-over-trans-rights-work-3285569

Selected anti-trans writings by Mackenzie

Murray, Kath; Hunter Blackburn, Lucy; Mackenzie, Lisa (19 March, 2024). How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/how-trans-activists-captured-the-hate-crime-agenda/

Murray, Kath; Hunter Blackburn, Lucy; Mackenzie, Lisa (11 January, 2024). The revised Scottish Prison Service transgender prisoner policy is not fit for purpose. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/the-revised-scottish-prison-service-transgender-prisoner-policy-is-not-fit-for-purpose/

Murray, Kath; Hunter Blackburn, Lucy; Mackenzie, Lisa (November 2020). Women and Equalities Select Committee: Reform of the Gender Recognition Act Submission from MurrayBlackburnMackenzie https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17343/pdf/

Murray K, Hunter Blackburn L (2019). Losing sight of women’s rights: The unregulated introduction of Gender Self-Identification as a case study of policy capture In Scotland. Scottish Affairs, 23 (3): 262-289. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2019.0284

  • Cowan S, Giles HJ, Hewer R, Kaufmann B, Kenny M, Morris S, Baines KN (2021). Sex and gender equality law and policy: a response to Murray, Hunter Blackburn and Mackenzie. In Scottish Affairs (Vol. 30, Issue 1, pp. 74–95). https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0347
  • Murray K, Hunter Blackburn L, Mackenzie L (2020). Statement from the authors of ‘Losing sight of women’s rights.’ In Scottish Affairs (Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp. 1–2). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0303
    • “Lisa Mackenzie removed her name from the paper to address a perceived conflict of interest on the part of her then employer.”

Resources

Murray Blackburn Mackenzie (murrayblackburnmackenzie.org)

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