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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Welsh Government Wipes and Shreds Key “Trans” Sex Document

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stumbledin · 09/09/2019 19:20

oooops!!

In yet another major cock-up, the incompetent, minority-hugging, Welsh Labour Government has destroyed – and electronically wiped – every copy it ever possessed of a key “Equality Impact Assessment” that it had commissioned on “transgender people”.

The “Equality Impact Assessment” was an important adjunct to what was described as a ‘Welsh Government Action Plan’ launched in March 2016 to “advance equality for transgender people” .

The Welsh Labour Government confirmed in August 2018 that the Action Plan HAD been subjected to a full “Equality Impact Assessment” …. but now something seems to have gone badly wrong….

It now appears that there is not a single copy of the Equality Impact Assessment in existence – anywhere… in any form whatsoever.

Mumsnet Member E Williams didn’t mess about – and triggered a Freedom of Information request on the matter – to force the Welsh Labour Government to come clean.

(Are there gender critical gremlins at work or is it that nobody's heart is really in to this as a priority issue.)

penarthnews.wpcomstaging.com/2019/09/05/welsh-government-wipes-and-shreds-key-trans-sex-document/

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 10/09/2019 20:53

Someone would have leaked it. I don't believe it was ever done.

FOIrequester · 10/09/2019 20:58

Yes the document will have been emailed around and so would be in numerous In boxes and on email servers.

After they failed to find the Equality Impact Assessment anywhere on their system, I made another request for all Welsh Government communications which mentioned the EIA, in an effort to see if it ever existed. They responded with a single document which says a draft existed, but they didn't include any emails at all.

Links to both FOI requests.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/equality_impact_assessment_for_t_2
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/documents_relating_to_the_equali

The first request has now gone to the Information Commissioner and I've asked for an internal review for the second.

There's more on the other thread.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3652524-Welsh-Assembly-and-the-lost-equality-impact-assessment

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 10/09/2019 21:24

You are a star FOI

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