From the Easy Reading version of the Welsh LGBTQ+ Action Plan consultation
- it is so unsafe to tell people they cannot trust their own eyes about who is a man and who is a woman.
Queer means..... ? (I still don't know)
And as for the plus...?
Here is the not easy reading version - it still doesn't make clear why people "wanting to reject specific labels" should need to be the business of the state.
The plus can be "any number of other identities"...
Why is this a "community of people"?
People who are happy to clearly describe themselves as gay or lesbian, and people who reject that label and are not in same-sex relationships... in what way are they a community??
Simples?
This is one of their priorities....
(who does this?)
Who could be against people "living a full life?"
No "gender" is not a protected characteristic
Not the definition of hate crime
Hurtful comments are not hate crimes
The whole thing feels incoherent, exploitative and leading
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Peter Wilkins case exposes another public body (this one part of @DefenceHQ) that lost sight of the Equality Act and of civil service principles of impartiality and objectivity.
One colleague accused him of making a "threatening" FOI request when he tried to draw attention to @dstlmod 's Line Manager’s Guide.
The FOI was turned down but I tried again.
At first DSTL said they couldn't find the document.
I said "have another look, its on your intranet" and they located it.
Then they thought long and hard about whether they could withhold it on security grounds.
Lynn O'Donnell had writen a document entitled Line Managers Guide to supporting LGBT+ Identifying staff.
It included the old Stonewall definition of transphobia (which has now been withdrawn).
The action starts not long after the Forstater EAT judgment.
Prof Sophie Scott is awarded the Faraday Prize and O'Donnell goes onto DSTL's "distillery" chat forum to say 'tis a pity she's a TERF....and linked GC views to rise in violence against LGBT people
The High Court has granted an anonymity order in relation to three individual "trans and intersex" claimants in the Good Law Project's case against EHRC for its interim update.
The nomination of Mary-Ann Stephenson as new chair of the EHRC brought the witch hunters out.
Stephenson has a PhD in equality law. She is Director of the Women’s Budget Group, and has been director of the Fawcett Society, chair of the Early Education and Childcare Coalition and a board member of Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre.
A bunch of charity CEOs (some of whom are part of "Equally Ours" with her) wrote a letter saying darkly she "previously supported views seen at odds with inclusivity for all"
There was a petition accusing her of making "anti-trans statements" and "association with groups advocating for the curtailment of trans people's human rights"