SCECLB315 Jackie Wakefield
What are your views on the general principles of the Bill and
the need for legislation to deliver the Welsh Government’s
stated policy objective (to make the Senedd a more effective
legislature by ensuring it is broadly representative of the gender
make-up of the population)?
Sex is what the population is made up of. It
is important that men and women are distinguished by biological sex
as doing otherwise enables anyone with nefarious ideas about women
access to their spaces, their roles (under the Equality Act). See
Scotland, Australia, USA, Canada where women's rights have been
demoted to second class and taken over by men.
What are your views on the system of enforcement and potential
sanctions for non-compliance proposed in the Bill?
Obviously if these things are not checked
there will be men claiming to be women wishing to push women out of
their protected status positions and (biological) women will once
again be demoted to second class citizens. We do not have self ID
as law in the UK and this is self ID by the back door.
Are there any potential barriers to the implementation of the
Bill’s provisions? If so, what are they, and are they
adequately taken into account in the Bill and the accompanying
Explanatory Memorandum and Regulatory Impact Assessment?
Are any unintended consequences likely to arise from the
Bill?
Women's protection under the Equality Act will
be overridden by self ID by the back door. Women will have gained
nothing and men would be in the same privileged position as always.
Self ID is opening the door for disingenuous men to access female
spaces which keep women safe. This is not acceptable and reprobates
will take advantage of the situation. See Australia USA etc as
evidence that this will happen.
What are your views on the Welsh Government’s assessment
of the financial and other impacts of the Bill?
What are your views on the balance between the information
contained on the face of the Bill and what is left to subordinate
legislation? Are the powers for Welsh Ministers to make subordinate
legislation appropriate?
Do you have any views on matters relating to the legislative
competence of the Senedd including compatibility with the European
Convention on Human Rights?
Do you have any views on matters related to the quality of the
legislation, or to the constitutional or other implications of the
Bill?
Are there any other issues that you would like to raise about
the Bill and the accompanying Explanatory Memorandum or any related
matters?
Anything else?