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.
A 🧵
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We’re pleased to be quoted in this article.
“Men are not women and never will be women. It is an insult to women to pretend otherwise. Self-identification is not the law in the UK and would have negative consequences for the rights of women and girls”.
Men should NOT be permitted to ID into women’s sport - we’re glad to say that the public in Cardiff city centre agreed with us today.
No surprises there for a sporting nation with an appreciation of fair sport. 🏴
Over to you
@lesley4wrexham
#SaveWomensSport
#RespectMySex
The largest feminist conference in Europe is coming to Cardiff
Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe is attending. Our Iranian sisters are attending
These men discuss burning down the venue
Male violence. Woman hating.
Over to you
@swpolice
@SWPCardiff
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@WalesOnline
@BBCWalesNews
Women entering Ironman Wales in Tenby this weekend might assume that their category is Fair for Females, WRONG! Here’s our own Jane
@rowinggeek
explaining why.
#SaveWomensSport
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Shocking.
The CEO of the
@fawcettsociety
responding to
@DarrenMillarMS
and openly stating at the
#Senedd
that it's for political parties to determine what a woman is and that they would support men on electoral quota lists reserved for women.
How shameful.
A🧵
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BREAKING NEWS – UK SELF ID BY THE BACK DOOR
Welsh Govt will thumb their noses at UK Govt and introduce legislation in the new year to –
🚨Redefine ‘woman’ to include males
🚨Alter the definition of ‘woman’ at any time
🚨Squash any ability to challenge a self ID declaration
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Women of Wales. This 👇
is an actual Welsh female sports presenter.
She’d happily support men taking women’s places in sports teams. And would see anyone opposing that subjected to criminal prosecution.
The absolute state of it.
#SaveWomensSport
Q. When is a ‘single-sex ward’ not a single-sex ward?
A. When a Welsh health board like
@HywelDdaHB
are involved and have been 'Stonewalled'
Women of Wales – when you are at your most vulnerable in hospital, you are being gaslit
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Good morning and a warm Welsh welcome to our new followers. By amazing coincidence, our follow count has spiked, again, after a women's rights event that men tried to disrupt. It's almost as if that tactic is not only ineffective in silencing us, but actively counterproductive.
Women arrange an event at a venue to talk about women's rights
Online abuse commences
Student's Union offers their support and comfort (not to the women obviously)
Venue is targeted
Step up and investigate
@swpolice
1/4
#SameOldMisogyny
#ListenToWomen
This 15 year old girl has been put through totally avoidable trauma due to the mixed-sex changing area policy of the LC2 Swansea.
And we know it’s not the first time male sexual predators have taken advantage there. Shame on you
@SwanseaCouncil
!
At the end of this clip, an
@ElectHer_UK
representative declines to attempt a definition, stating she is 'not interested in doing that, the patriarchy has been doing it for long enough'.
Allow us to help - a woman is an adult human female.
2/4
When it comes to women's sex-based rights, most other MPs and candidates have either dodged or denounced the issue.
This man hasn't. He's stood up for women across Wales and been fearless.
We are very grateful for
@DavidTCDavies
. We hope he is re-elected.
#RespectMySex
1/3
The Welsh Labour conference took place this weekend
Here’s
@WelshYoungLab
on the conference stage proudly saying ‘only shit on Tories and Terfs’
Misogyny in plain sight - what are you doing about it
@PrifWeinidog
?
We represent women. Women are adult human females.
We give our evidence at the next
#Senedd
evidence session at around 10.25 on 24th April. - do watch us! .
We will represent the voices of all who know that women are adult human females.
4/4
Note to Gareth: no one is taking away anyone’s chance to be part of a sports team
That’s why we have age and sex categories - so we can all ‘belong’ while also ensuring fairness and safety
Women’s sports are clearly dispensable to you
3/3
Compare and contrast - a shouting, screaming crowd trying to silence women at
#LetWomenSpeakDublin
yesterday
Meanwhile in Cardiff, a joyless ‘Trans Rights’ march took place with no-one protesting, shouting them down, or trying to silence anyone
1/4
When some tremendously exciting running feminists did
@parkrunUK
this weekend 😊
Credit for carrying a HUGE banner
All to
#SaveWomenSports
and to campaign for fair record keeping for women at Parkrun - true inclusion must mean fairness 🏃♀️
#SummerOfSport
@WomensRightsNet
@swpolice
This is untrue and we invite you to correct it. Women were told they would be physically removed using force - several times. Powers under S12 Public Order Act were referenced to back this up. Suggest you retain body worn video and correct this - complaints may be forthcoming
Hello
@billybragg
. You're very quiet on the
#LiaThomas
controversy. As a vocal supporter of equal rights, can you look the three women on the right in the eyes and tell them that what is happening to them is right and fair? Or are you looking for another girl?
Women of Wales!
This is the time. We make a stand together
Our Govt seek to remove all our rights as women, to erase our sex, eradicate single-sex spaces and services
Join us for the fightback!
If not you, who?
If not now, when?
Join us!
#WelshWomenWillNotSubmit
Good old
@JohnLewisRetail
- bastion of the British high street
Where female customers can no longer have a bra fitting in a female-only changing room
Because it’s, well, nasty to keep the chaps out
Yes you heard that right
#AllIWantForChristmas
- dignity, privacy & safety
We’ll be joining
@jk_rowling
in that prison cell if this Ad by
@WelshGovernment
doing the rounds is anything to go by
It tells us (from 33s in) that saying a man in make up is a ‘bloke’ is a hate crime.
NO. What ridiculous & dangerous lunacy
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Special treatment is *exactly* what Emily wants. Emily is not female. Sex cannot be changed. Emily has THE EXACT SAME opportunities as every other athlete - the opportunity to compete in the correct sex category. If you want something different, well, that's special treatment.
@stevescott_itv
@BorisJohnson
"I don't want special treatment from anyone, I just want the same opportunities as my fellow female athletes"
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges answers criticism from those who say she shouldn't be competing in women's events
Some of the
@WRNWales
South East Wales feminists got together for lunch today. We only realised halfway through that we’d failed to apply for a Women Lunching Permit - hopefully
@jk_rowling
can swing a retrospective approval for us?
Gareth had every opportunity at winning
But hand over your opportunities women & girls, they’re not that important apparently
Because Gareth says you should be letting males ‘belong’ in your sport
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A science-backed, common sense decision made. And about time too as this anti-women travesty has gone on for too long 🚴♂️🚵♂️
Diolch
@BritishCycling
This is the only possible decision for cycling that can
#SaveWomensSports
Women’s sport is for women
Our Government are hell bent on erasing us & our media have their fingers in their ears
But we are Welsh women. We are organising & we are fighting back to reclaim our sex-based rights ✊
Come and join us at
@WomensRightsNet
Here’s just a few of us rebels!
#WelshWomenRising
Politicians saying how ‘deeply sorry’ they are to women is just not going to wash
@Adamprice
@Plaid_Cymru
How can you deal with this crisis when you can’t even define what a woman is? When you believe that men are women?
No surprise you’re in this mess
#NoToSelfID
This is very sad and we hope it’s resolved for the sake of these girls.
Notably, it seems boys’ football is carrying on. It’s just the girls. Why is that
@FAWales
@NewportCounty
?
Girls deserve sporting opportunity too.
#SaveWomensSport
Would YOU pay Stonewall to train your business?
Women & men gave out leaflets outside a Stonewall Cymru Workplace conference today.
The conference was £350 a pop! 💰💸💰
Groups represented were
@WRNWales
@women_outspoken
@LGBAllies_Cymru
&
@MensNetwork1
Film clip Pt 1
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The absolute nerve of
@WelshGovernment
claiming they want to make Wales the ‘safest country for women’?
While they actively strip away single-sex spaces and services for women and are hell-bent on introducing self ID
There really is no limit to the rank stupidity unfolding in Wales at the highest level -
@Arts_Wales_
currently beclowning themselves in style
The stupidity of
@WelshGovernment
is quite contagious when your funding is dependent on their approval
Welcome news. The First Minister of Wales has;
🚨Swallowed gender ideology
🚨Destroyed women’s rights
🚨Sought to redefine women to include men
🚨Wasted money on an unlawful Gender Quotas Bill
🚨Refused to listen outside of his echo chamber
And more. Happy Christmas!
Standing for re-election this week is the indomitable
@ToniaAntoniazzi
, who’s
not been afraid to speak up for women or for single-sex spaces.
We hope
@Keir_Starmer
is listening to THIS female MP and that her principled courage is rewarded.
#RespectMySex
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
When
@Plaid
’s ‘values’ lead them to cancel a worldwide feminist group
@FiLiA_charity
’s stall at conference, are their ‘values’ actually worth holding anymore or voting for?
A 🧵
1/9
WRN Wales has a top team at Cardiff’s Sophia Gardens this evening.
Right off the bat, an outstanding delivery of 100s of leaflets to match spectators, all eager to let us know how angry they are that men are allowed by
@ECB_cricket
to play on female only teams.
#SaveWomensSports
We’re disappointed that the Court of Session in Scotland has found in favour of the UK Government’s unprecedented decision to use Section 35 to block the Gender Recognition Reform Bill from Royal Assent.
Our statement ⬇️
Absolutely appalling intimidation of women in
#Bristol
this afternoon, with
@StandingforXX
requiring a police escort as TRAs shout abuse and harass peaceful demonstrators. We will NOT be silenced.
Both organisations were giving evidence at a Reform Bill committee hearing for the
#Senedd
(Electoral Candidates Lists) Bill. On 'gender quotas' to improve women's political representation.
Both need to read the Equality Act and the
@ehrc
letter.
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Welsh Govt KNOWS it doesn't have the legal competence to bring this in.
Yet they arrogantly drive on, complacently believing no one will have the will or resources to challenge them
We put you on notice
@PrifWeinidog
– your confidence is misplaced.
#NoToSelfID
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Hmmm
@itvwales
How about you focus on the battle of female cyclists, training hard to represent Wales?
Only to face the rank unfairness of a male - with all the inherent biological advantage
Now there’s a documentary for you (as opposed to a puff piece)
#SaveWomensSports
📺🚴🏻♀️🏳️⚧️ On Tuesday 29 November, elite trans cyclist Emily Bridges’ documentary ‘Race To Be Mẹ’ will be aired on
@ITVWales
.
It details her battle to represent Wales at the
#CommonwealthGames
, which found herself at the centre of an international storm.
Interesting spin from
@swpolice
and
@WalesOnline
in this updated article
We are being gaslit by our media, by our police. Truth has become a flexible concept
As women appear to have so little importance to them, we have some comments
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We are live in Cardiff 🏴 city centre this morning asking the public four key questions on women’s rights.
We’re glad to say that they overwhelmingly
#RespectMySex
! If only certain politicians would listen!
Come and let us know YOUR views.
@WomensRightsNet
This is pure Dentons strategy – piggyback self ID onto other legislation
Welsh Govt are backing on a lack of will & resources to legally challenge this – they've already been advised they don’t have the legislative competence for it.
The sheer contempt.
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They are introducing a ‘
#GenderQuotasBill
’ in the new year that claims to increase the number of women in the Senedd.
This is a DECEPTION
It’s a means to introduce self ID in law.
In the corridors of power, this is openly acknowledged & it may increase MALE representation
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@ITVWales
Oh dear
You’ve jumped on the anti JKR bandwagon, without any evidence of what she’s actually said. Funnily, no one has ever produced these so called harmful comments in any report yet
It’s starting to sound like you are anti-women or at best, lacking journalistic curiosity
Thank you
@DavidTCDavies
for addressing the important issue of women's rights in Wales in the
#ITVWalesDebate
.
You've been a consistent voice supporting the right of women and girls to single-sex spaces, and female sport. Good men are seen and appreciated.
#RespectMySex
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.
@DavidTCDavies
asks
@LSRPlaid
is she concerned about her party's policy on trans women people being able to share single-sex spaces and participate in same sex sports
#ITVWalesDebate
And thank you to all the women (and some men) who spoke up, sent in consultation responses, and made their feelings known. Some of whom also attended at the Senedd hearing.
Your support is always appreciated. We remain united against self ID in Wales.
9/9
The leaflets highlighted that Stonewall;
Inhibit diversity of thought
Has misled employers on the Equality Act
Promotes policies that discriminate against women & girls
Divides the LGB community
Demonises lesbians, the previous CEO comparing them to ‘sexual racists’
3/7
Good news for this protestor - there is indeed a sports category for males!
It’s the men’s
Plus it ensures fairness for female participants - a win/win all round
#SaveWomensSport
3/4
In summary
It is reasonable for women to expect the female toilets to be female only and to raise this with any man there
We will not be compelled to lie
And we will not accept unlawful arrest, false imprisonment and use of force. Or false media spin.
8/8
#WomenWillNotSubmit
This appears to have taken place in Cardiff city centre last night
It did NOT happen at the conference
We are making contact with
@bradders_2021
&
@PankhurstEM
to confirm they are at home safely and to establish further facts
Deeply concerning
#WomensRightsNetwork
BREAKING NEWS -
@WelshGovernment
learnt NOTHING from their failed Gender Quotas Bill that attempted to introduce self ID for electoral lists.
Today, they published a new Bill that AGAIN continues their foolish mission to introduce self ID in Wales.
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BREAKING NEWS – UK SELF ID BY THE BACK DOOR
Welsh Govt will thumb their noses at UK Govt and introduce legislation in the new year to –
🚨Redefine ‘woman’ to include males
🚨Alter the definition of ‘woman’ at any time
🚨Squash any ability to challenge a self ID declaration
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This is due to be brought in by all UK forces in December 2022
It was decided by
@PoliceChiefs
without any consideration of the impact on women, on race, on religion, on disability, on age
We’d like you to intervene
@SuellaBraverman
2/3
We note your comments that the 'victim' did not want further action
We suggest that the woman was the actual victim here
@swpolice
and that you failed to fully investigate this
We suggest that there was no action to take as there were no offences by her. No evidence at all
6/8
Attempts to silence women from legitimate views not going to work. Pointed out to officers that we understood they were being used to suppress women’s voices
Part 2
The words of
@JaneHutt
Minister of Social Justice in
@WelshGovernment
‘In respect of trans-inclusion limiting access to women's safe spaces, there is a lack of evidence around the actual experienced impacts of trans inclusion in services’
Hello? Seriously?
1/5
For those who say “it’s just one or two”, as if that justifies the inclusion of males in women’s sports, here’s the ever-growing list of women cheated out of places, prizes. And that’s just at the top level.
#SaveWomensSports
@martina
@sharrond62
@mara_yamauchi
@RachelBowljiffy
@ForWomenScot
@JudyMurray
There is a list of all the women and girls who have lost a podium place, prize money or a qualifying spot to male bodies in women’s sport
167 and counting (and this will be missing some that haven’t been publicised)