Liberal Forum

Transgender people would be counted as belonging to their adopted gender in future Senedd elections under leaked plans to change the law to create a more gender-balanced Welsh Parliament.

 The draft legislation was leaked to the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) Wales which accused Welsh ministers of “undermining the rights of half the population”. Half of the candidates for future Senedd elections will have to be women, under Welsh Government plans, and the group is angry that transgender women will be counted as female.

 Cathy Larkman, from WRN Wales, said: “It is shameful that they are hijacking legislation that should benefit women and increase female participation in political life, to embed a toxic and misogynistic ideology.”

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