WRN Wales teamed up with @women_outspoken today in a joint action outside Mumbles Yacht Club @mumblesyc to draw attention to their dreadful policy of allowing men to use the female showers, changing rooms and toilets.
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Cathy and Dee explain more here 👇.
@mumblesyc have not bothered to consult with, or consider their members.
They expect women and girls to sacrifice their privacy and dignity to accommodate the wishes of a man to be in female spaces.
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We wrapped ourselves in towels to illustrate the appalling policy of the club.
Women and girls should NOT be expected to leave in wet sailing gear, or hide behind towels and dry robes in their own changing rooms.
HERE WE GO AGAIN. 🚨
@WelshGovernment have released their voluntary Diversity & Inclusion guidance for political parties.
The consultation closes on 7th January 2025.
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Draft diversity and inclusion guidance for registered political parties [HTML] | GOV.WALES
The guidance is split into three parts for political parties: 1. Publication of a strategy 2. Collection of data 3. Quotas for women candidates
For obvious reasons, we are particularly interested in Part 3.
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The guidance refers to 'specified characteristics' which go beyond the Equality Act 2010.
Sex is referred to within this and IS linked to the Act.
HOWEVER. This section relates only to Parts 1 and 2. Strategy and Data. NOT quotas for women.
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Is @WalesOnline an impartial and accurate news source?
On 18/9 they published this story, which is both factually inaccurate and biased.
We contacted both the reporter and the editor to offer balance and to correct the inaccuracies.
NO RESPONSE.
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The article reports on the response of several groups, who were all keen to see the ‘Gender Quotas’ Bill become law in Wales.
Their views are reported uncritically, along with their disappointment with Welsh Government at the scrapping of the Bill.
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We didn’t share their enthusiasm. Neither did other women or groups.
The Bill attempted to introduce self ID.
It also allowed for at LEAST 50% of candidates to be ‘women’ on electoral lists.
It did NOT allow for a 50/50 split as claimed inaccurately in the article.
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Self ID in Wales has been defeated (for now anyway).
The scrapping of the ‘Gender Quotas Bill’ concludes what has been an embarrassing and shoddy episode in the history of the Welsh Senedd. And a scandalously wasteful one too.
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