Edinburgh city councillors have voted to fast-track the council's membership of a workplace diversity scheme aimed at supporting LGBT+ staff.
The council will join Stonewall's Diversity Champion scheme more than a year earlier than was planned after employees were "very critical" of the existing policies in place to support LGBT+ inclusion.
Councillors said it was important to sign up as soon as possible as the council was "slipping backwards" on trans rights - with one even appearing to criticise J.K. Rowling's "golden hand prints" outside the City Chambers.
