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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Welsh Government: Transgender people are people who are born as one sex but are the other sex

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OldCrone · 16/08/2021 14:50

This is from the new LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales: easy read version

Transgender people are people who are born as one sex but are the other sex. For example, a person who looks like a man on the outside may be a woman on the inside

This is one of the documents for the current consultation about the new LGBTQ+ Action Plan.

I decided to look at the easy read version and the young people's version since the standard version didn't seem to have any kind of glossary about the terms used. The easy read version does, but some of the definitions, like this one, don't make sense. The young people's version, like the standard version, has no glossary.

In a consultation about LGBTQ+ people, the Welsh Government appears to be unable to define clearly what terms like 'transgender', 'gender identity' and 'non-binary' actually mean.

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LongBlobson · 16/08/2021 15:07

Has the whole world lost the plot?

NancyDrawed · 16/08/2021 15:14

I get that this is the easy read version, but it names gender as a protected characteristic (although does include sex, so that's something)

catzwhiskas · 16/08/2021 15:14

Exploding with fury.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 16/08/2021 15:19

It's embarrassing to see this sort of rubbish being produced by a government. And it shows just how untouchable this ideology is that nobody dares point out incoherent drivel self identifying as legal facts.

NancyDrawed · 16/08/2021 15:19

Sexual Identity
Sexual Identity is who you are sexually attracted to. For
example lesbian, gay man, bisexual, heterosexual.

So Sexual Identity is a re branding of sexuality?

Jaysmith71 · 16/08/2021 15:40

Maybe I like Rugby and Cheese on toast. Does that make me Welsh on the inside?

GrimDamnFanjo · 16/08/2021 15:43

@OldCrone

This is from the new LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales: easy read version

Transgender people are people who are born as one sex but are the other sex. For example, a person who looks like a man on the outside may be a woman on the inside

This is one of the documents for the current consultation about the new LGBTQ+ Action Plan.

I decided to look at the easy read version and the young people's version since the standard version didn't seem to have any kind of glossary about the terms used. The easy read version does, but some of the definitions, like this one, don't make sense. The young people's version, like the standard version, has no glossary.

In a consultation about LGBTQ+ people, the Welsh Government appears to be unable to define clearly what terms like 'transgender', 'gender identity' and 'non-binary' actually mean.

That's just embarrassing. Fuck me.
Artichokeleaves · 16/08/2021 15:45

No. Just plain untrue.

Wrongsideofhistorymyarse · 16/08/2021 15:50

Absolute nonsense.

TheWeeDonkey · 16/08/2021 15:52

A Welsh person is anyone who identifies as a Welsh person Jaysmith71 💫👍

EarthSight · 16/08/2021 15:53

It seems that people are unhappy with the idea of gender identity. They now want to completely erase the meaning of what sex is, much to to the detriment of women. Also, is that statement in line with the Equality Act?

TheWeeDonkey · 16/08/2021 15:55

No I get it, I'm short and fat on the outside but I'm tall and slim on the inside.

Won't anyone validate my true identity? 😭

Silvergreen · 16/08/2021 15:55

@NancyDrawed

Sexual Identity Sexual Identity is who you are sexually attracted to. For example lesbian, gay man, bisexual, heterosexual.

So Sexual Identity is a re branding of sexuality?

These are sexual orientations. The sex of the people you are attracted to. It's nothing to do with having sex although that may be part of your life. This has been completely changed and it pisses me off.
Jaysmith71 · 16/08/2021 15:55

@TheWeeDonkey

A Welsh person is anyone who identifies as a Welsh person Jaysmith71 💫👍
Well iechyd da to that.

Now where's me seaweed sandwich?

TheWeeDonkey · 16/08/2021 15:57

I'm sorry, this is so far through the looking glass I can't take it seriously. I would love to see how the people who do this react when the house of cards collapses

ArabellaScott · 16/08/2021 15:57

@Jaysmith71

Maybe I like Rugby and Cheese on toast. Does that make me Welsh on the inside?
What is Rugby and Cheese on toast, some kind of weird national dish?
AtlasNeverShrugged · 16/08/2021 15:57

Who do we email to complain about this?

EarthSight · 16/08/2021 15:58

For example, a person who looks like a man on the outside may be a woman on the inside

How does that work with medicine, exactly? It doesn't does it, because you can't wish away material reality. I just have to question the effect this is having on young girls. I just see this as gaslighting on an unbelievable scale. It's cult-like.

ArabellaScott · 16/08/2021 15:58

Same, WeeDonkey, it's amazing that someone writes this with a straight face. If the consequences weren't potentially serious it would just be amusing.

EarthSight · 16/08/2021 16:01

Also, what does 'inside' even mean????

I assume they don't think that out outward bodily appearance is some kind of shell, like a costume?? I think what they want to say is 'may be a woman psychologically' or 'may be have a female soul'....but they don't actually want to come out and say that because it would inspire to many questions that they would then have to spend some time silencing or shouting down.

TheWeeDonkey · 16/08/2021 16:09

I dunno EarthSight maybe its like that guy in Men in Black? Or like those matryoshka dolls? Or maybe like a Kinder Egg, chocolate on the outside but a toy on the inside!

TheWeeDonkey · 16/08/2021 16:12

I mean one person wrote that, then another person proof read it. I assume someone else translated it and then someone else published it and distributed it!🙈

BreatheAndFocus · 16/08/2021 16:15

If our outside body she’ll can hide a person of the opposite sex, why could it not hide another species, or another age of human - or indeed anything we want.

I thought this was a problem with identity politics, but it’s actually the whole point of it - you are what you say you are, be that the opposite sex, an elf, a toddler, a wolf, and anyone who questions you or expresses disbelief is just being horrid.

Jaysmith71 · 16/08/2021 16:16

So I asked Google Translate to say what 'gender' was in Welsh, and it came back as 'rhyw.'

So I asked Google Translate what 'rhyw' was in English and it came back as 'Sex.'

ThisIsSimplyBeyond · 16/08/2021 16:23

Genre or class is 'dosbarth, so it should be sex = rhyw and gender (from root genre) is dosbarth...?