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A support group for transgender civil servants that has likened women's rights campaigners to the Ku Klux Klan has been handed tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money.

The staff network, known as a:gender, received £110,000 from the Home Office last year and another £80,000 from the Cabinet Office.

It is also thought to have received funding from the Ministry of Defence, Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue and Customs.

A:gender says its role is to help transgender and intersex civil servants flourish by offering advice and support.

But critics say it also carries out 'inaccurate and divisive' training to Whitehall departments.