A leading pub chain has been dragged into a transphobia row after police were called to a city-centre pub when bar staff complained of feeling “threatened” by the presence of a group of campaigners who oppose extending women’s rights to transgender people.
Marion Millar, 50, a businesswoman who is being prosecuted for allegedly posting transphobic social media posts, was asked to leave the Doctors pub in Edinburgh with a group of fellow activists by a trans bar server who objected to her presence.
Millar told The Times that she complied with the request to vacate the bar, which is owned by the Greene King chain, but Police Scotland said they were called to attend when “a group of people refused to leave the
