Townhall has reported time and time again how LGBTQ+ advocates have pushed for policies that would erase women. This includes allowing men who believe they are “trans women” to compete in women’s sports, robbing them of awards and opportunities. Now, one country will go a step further to change their laws to redefine “woman” to be “inclusive” to this group.
This week, reports broke that the government in Wales is planning to redefine “women” to include biological male “trans women.”
The proposal, the Gender Quotas Bill, was revealed on Sunday to The Telegraph. The leaked draft proposes that half the candidates to be members of the Welsh Parliament, known as the Senedd, be women. But, it reportedly states that the definition of “woman” could include men “transitioning.”
Now, women’s rights advocates are claiming that this could fill the Welsh Parliament with men who say they are women.
“The Gender Quotas Bill should be about improving the representation of women on electoral lists and potentially selection for the Senedd,” Cathay Larkman, who represents Women’s Rights Network Wales, said, according to Daily Mail.
“However, what it will actually achieve, based upon the detail of the draft Bill we have seen, is likely to be males self-identifying as women in order to greatly improve their chances of selection, and thereby muscling actual women out.”
Heather Binning, the founder of WRN UK, said that gender self-identification is “devious and disingenuous.”
“It must be resisted,” she added.
A spokesperson for the Welsh government told Daily Mail: “Our proposed model for quotas is designed to maximise the chances of achieving a Senedd comprised of at least 50 per cent women. Work is ongoing on the Bill.”
"It is astonishing that the government is spending public funds and using a gender quotas bill to promote an agenda which undermines the rights of half the population of Wales,” Larkman told BBC.
"It is shameful that they are high-jacking legislation that should benefit women and increase female participation in political life, to embed a toxic and misogynistic ideology,” she added. "The government does not have the legal powers to push this through and are highly likely to fail when it is challenged in the courts, as it will be."
