Mick Hartley

No let-up in Wales for the trans advance:

Gendered pronouns will be purged from official documentation by the Welsh government’s primary arts body, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Arts Council of Wales, the taxpayer-funded body responsible for supporting the arts on behalf of the devolved government, is set to purge male and female pronouns like “he/him” and “she/her” from the body’s official documentation, The Telegraph understands.

In place of gendered pronouns, the Arts Council will use the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them”.

News of the policy arts comes after the Welsh government this year rolled out an LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales, which pledged to ensure public bodies were “sensitive to gendered language”….

Revelations about the pronoun policy come after the Welsh government unveiled its LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales in January, which aimed to ensure policies supported “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex, asexual, aromantic, queer and questioning people”.

A message in the preamble of the Action Plan, penned by Mark Drakeford, the First Minister, warns that “a need for constant vigilance remains” with regard to the rights of  “LGBTQ+ communities”, states that there will be an “effort to secure further advances”.

"Constant vigilance". There speaks an ideologically-driven man.

Joan Smith, the feminist author and adviser to the campaign group Sex Matters, said: “The Welsh government is completely captured.”

She added: “It is not the job of publicly-funded organisations to change the language when the public is so clearly against gender nonsense.

“What right does Arts Council Wales have to misgender all of us who use correct pronouns like he and she? It will make Arts Council Wales a laughing stock, as it should.”