Wales the most LGBTQ+ friendly nation?

You might as well take the LGB out of that right now on this showing @WelshGovernment

A shocking bin-fire of a meeting

@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer no wonder women can’t trust you

#RespectMySex

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It may have helped if the host from @LGBTLabour had actually asked questions from those attending

Did you know questions were rapidly being deleted from the chat bar @hannahblythyn?

Did you know that lesbians were being silenced?
Did you know that any challenges to the deletion of questions were being removed @hannahblythyn?

We’d like the host from @LGBTLabour ‘Ash’ to explain why the questions of lesbian were repeatedly deleted

Surely the L is an important part of the LGBTQ+ Plan? Surely? No?
Do you support the silencing of lesbians @Keir_Starmer @hannahblythyn @PrifWeinidog?

If not, what are you doing about the authoritarian attitude of @LGBTLabour?

You won’t win over the female vote like this
Of course, the magnificent Kate Harris of @ALLIANCELGB spoke up and praised you @hannahblythyn for attending this meeting

& told you that questions from lesbians were being deleted

The host then removed her from the meeting - Shameful!

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Are the experiences of brave detransitioners an inconvenient truth for @WelshGovernment?

Where are they in your not-so-friendly LGBTQ+ plan? Nowhere

A woman was removed for posting this question

What’s your answer @hannahblythyn?
A woman posted a question about the pressure on same-sex attracted youth

She was removed from the meeting

Is same-sex attraction now unmentionable to @WelshGovernment and @UKLabour? The love that dare not speak its name - again?

#LesbianVisibility
Here we go again

Another woman removed - for daring to post a question about whether @WelshGovernment had paid attention to the Cass review

Nice mention of Time to Think by @hannahsbee - perhaps we’ll get them all a copy!

Have you read it yet @Keir_Starmer?
And now a question on the likelihood of @WelshGovernment being able to implement their plans

And the utter debacle of GRR in Scotland

Plus failure to consult with women

Woman removed from the meeting without explanation

@wrnwales
@MerchedCymru
@FiLiA_charity
It goes on and on - by now the meeting could have moved into a telephone box

Women are being silenced
Lesbians are being silenced

@WelshGovernment @UKLabour are not listening outside their echo chamber

& @LGBTLabour are an authoritarian disgrace
So do you condemn this conduct @hannahblythyn @PrifWeinidog?

Do you intend to respond to the unanswered questions of these women? We’re waiting @WelshGovernment

Do you condemn the behaviour of the host @LGBTLabour?

Or is this just a TQ+ plan and LGB are not welcome?
You are silencing women @UKLabour

You are repeating the mistakes of Scottish Govt

This is why women have no confidence @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour

You don’t #RespectMySex
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More from @WRNWales

Oct 7
We also wrote to @ReformUK about their reaction to the Supreme Court judgment - they now have one Senedd MS in @LauraJ4SWEast.

We asked that they set out their position for the elections in 2026, and address their awful messaging about men in women’s prisons.

Our letter 👇
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The response of @ReformUK in Wales, received from @LauraJ4SWEast.

Straightforward, uncomplicated and unequivocal on the rights of women and girls in Wales.

Thank you Laura Anne 👏

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And on that issue of men in women’s prisons that the party leader got into such a mess about?

Well, that’s better.

Should have listened to @LauraJ4SWEast first time round @Nigel_Farage

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Oct 7
We also wrote to @Plaid_Cymru, (the party of Wales apparently), following the Supreme Court judgment.

Plaid have aspirations in the Senedd elections of 2026. Surely they would have a lot to say to the female electorate of Wales on the rights of women and girls?

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Here’s their response to our letter sent in early May 2025.

That’s right. Nothing to say.

@RhunapIorwerth usually has a lot to say. He had nothing to say to us about the Supreme Court judgment.

Perhaps you’d like to rectify that Rhun? We’re all ears.

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Perhaps @Plaid_Cymru find themselves compromised by these statements which are still on their website, and in direct conflict with the Supreme Court judgment.

Until clarified, we can only presume they will breach the law and care not a jot about women’s rights.

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Oct 7
Despite only having one representative in the Senedd, the @WelshLibDems also received a letter from us about the Supreme Court judgment.

The response from @DoddsJane was prompt, measured and relatively reasonable on the surface.

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However, there were concerning aspects to their response.

There is nothing ambiguous about the judgement @WelshLibDems. Nor is it ‘complex’.
It’s crystal clear.

The issue is your party got it wrong. You failed women. You should have listened to @LibVoice4Women.

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The response gets it hopelessly wrong on single-sex spaces and fails to understand the Supreme Court judgment.

There is no ‘case by case basis’. Women’s single sex spaces are just that - for women. Not for men.

@WelshLibDems must educate themselves.

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Oct 7
Following the Supreme Court judgment, WRN Wales also wrote to @WelshLabour via our own First Minister Eluned Morgan.

We aimed to see if they would give a stronger commitment than that immediately following the judgment - and address their past wrongs.

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There followed a meeting 👇, with Minister @JaneHutt. So at least the @PrifWeinidog made this happen.

The approach of @WelshGovernment though consists of ‘waiting for the EHRC guidance’.

Not good enough. Policies are in breach of the judgment and delay is not acceptable.

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This recent letter from our First Minister assures us of a further meeting.

However, there is a complete failure to grasp the implications of the judgment now, the damage that is being wreaked on women’s rights in Wales, and no acknowledgment or apology to women’s groups.

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Aug 25
In an FOI response, @WelshGovernment stated they had sent a Ministerial letter to Baroness Falkner at the @EHRC.
That letter was from Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice Jane Hutt.

But we can exclusively reveal there’s even more!
Links below ⬇️
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Is this letter:

a) Pompous?
b) Dismissive of the rights of women and girls?
c) Desperate to avoid accountability?
d) All three?

Good news! we have an ‘alternative version’.

See next ⬇️
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If you thought the above letter was pompous, dismissive and desperate, then try this draft version instead!

‘Found’ underneath the back seat of a bus disembarking at the Senedd by an eagle eyed woman/secret agent #26451.

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Aug 25
What do you think @WelshGovernment’s considered response to the EHRC consultation following the Supreme Court judgment would be?
3 options to follow!

Will it be:
a) An impeccably logical analysis of the draft guidance, providing useful commentary?

Nope. Not that at all.
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Or is it:
b) An empassioned examination of where the TQ+ will be disadvantaged by discovering they never legally had the ‘rights’ (entitlements) Welsh Government told them they had?

Nope. Not that either.

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Or could it be:

c) A level headed acknowledgement of the restoration and protection of the rights of women and girls to privacy, dignity, safety and fairness?

Only joking. OF COURSE NOT.

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