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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15 months after calling me in for questioning about a tweet, and having sat on the CPS decision that there was no crime for 2 months, the Met bothered to call me up at 7pm this evening to tell me, and then put out this press statement. 🙄
#TheProcessIsThePunishment
Here is the tweet over which they wasted their time, my time, my lawyers time and taxpayers' money.
Minister for Women & Equalities says "We are proud of the EqAct & the rights & protections it affords women. The Govt does not plan to amend legal definitions in the act.”
Hundreds of women are going to Parliament on Wednesday to ask the govt to rethink.
It took 22 more years before 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed permitting women to become join professions and to become lawyers and civil servants and to sit on juries.
There is new statutory safeguarding guidance out for schools in England which tells them to consider risks and harms to gender questioning children as part of safeguarding.
When this was out for consultation earlier in the year Adam Jepsen, Chief Health and Sex Education Officer of the Family Planning Association said that the government must withdraw it.
"These changes do not support trans children" he argued.
This is not the only topic where university VCs have not defended academic freedom strongly enough, but it is a very good demonstration of the problem.
@bphillipsonMP
Prof @Docstockk was hounded out of @SussexUni
She has been waiting for 3 years for the results of an @officestudents investigation