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Image caption, Jason Grant used to be employed to relief put in power the loyal correct to free length merchandise in Tayside
A community in Tayside has defended its resolution to appoint a man as a length dignity officer.
Jason Grant’s hiring sparked a heated on-line debate, with critics announcing the job will deserve to dangle gone to a girl.
He’s going to work with the gap’s length dignity working community to put in power the loyal correct to free length merchandise in public settings.
Tennis fable Martina Navratilova described it as “absurd”, while actress Frances Barber said she used to be “fuming”.
Susan Dalgety, a newspaper columnist and females’s rights campaigner, tweeted: “I don’t dangle any understanding why somebody thought it used to be a correct understanding to appoint a bloke.”
Mr Grant is expected to lead a regional marketing campaign at some level of faculties, faculties and wider communities to raise awareness of the contemporary legislation and develop obvious that Scottish executive funding is allocated as it’d be.
The job advert said the most attention-grabbing candidate wished a “a success observe file of enticing and empowering a big differ of people from a various differ of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, in dispute younger these that menstruate”.
The length dignity working community, which has representatives of Dundee and Angus School, Perth School, Angus Council and Dundee City Council, said Mr Grant used to be the strongest candidate for the job.
A spokesperson said: “The feature builds on some amazing work which has been gathering slip at some level of the Tay command for several years, led by a passionate community of people of all genders, ages and backgrounds.
“By changing the culture, encouraging debate and casting off the stigma spherical classes, we look for ahead to supporting the availability of this critical work at some level of the command.”
The spokesperson added that Mr Grant wouldn’t comment on the controversy over his appointment.
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Image caption, Sleek legislation got here into power in Scotland on Monday
Mr Grant beforehand labored as an legend supervisor with Imperial Tobacco.
He then became a non-public trainer alongside with his dangle industry and used to be no longer too long ago a wellbeing officer for Dundee and Angus School.
The 24-month feature as length dignity officer has a wage of up to £36,126, with the publish being funded by the Scottish executive.
On Monday, contemporary legislation got here into power in Scotland retaining the loyal to free sanitary merchandise.
The Length Merchandise Act formula councils and training suppliers dangle to develop the free items on hand to those that need them.
Labour MSP Monica Lennon campaigned for the legislation, which used to be unanimously backed within the Scottish Parliament in 2020.