Chwaroae Teg (Fair Play for Women) is a publicly-funded women's organisation that was captured some time ago and has already been picked up here several times for its reading of equal rights law. I used to live and work in Wales and several of my friends there keep me in touch with events.
This evening CT hosted a Zoom discussion on Gender Equality with representatives of all the main parties. I'll pass swiftly by on the subject of the youth and middle classness of the candidates, and on the constant refrain that we all just need to be kinder and more accepting and everything will be fine.
A couple of women used the Chat facility to ask polite, factual questions about sex, the Equality Act and so on. The Plaid representative, whose party and leader are totally TWAW, gave an impassioned little speech about the awfulness of sexual stereotyping and in response a couple of women in the Chat section asked questions about sexual stereotyping and transgender ideology and concerns about girls who defy sexual stereotypes being told they might be trans. One woman, a youth worker, expressed her concern. Someone else agreed.
Helen from Chwarae Teg intervened to tell them that divisiveness was not allowed. CT, she said, is an INCLUSIVE organisation and hate and. divisiveness are not tolerated. One of the women asked, in the Chat section, if this meant that they were not permitted to express concern about women and girls. She was ejected from the event. No idea what happened to the others involved but they probably got the boot too.
It's a useful example of how inclusivity works against women's interests. Inclusivity was used as a reason to shut down women' valid concerns.