Creating a Senedd that doesn’t have equality at its heart in legislation is a very serious mistake

Equity-based hiring is a terrible idea: we should be hiring on competence alone. If a woman wants to become a Senedd member there are no more obstacles to her doing so than there are for a man: Sian Gwenllian is living proof of this. You'll find that it's always in the well-paid, high-profile jobs that feminists want preferential treatment. For example, you'll never hear Sian Gwenllian calling for more female refuse collectors or brickies. You'll also notice that it only ever works one way: the majority of nurses and teachers are women, but Sian's absolutely fine with that inequity. Finally, Sian is a member of a political party that believes being a woman is nothing more than a state of mind, that any man can adopt: I'd love to know how she manages to juggle both views at the same time.

So wrong in every way posssible...it should always be the best person for the job, not some nonsensible utterings from someone who has done very little herself to prove her utterings.

It was a serious mistake to even consider gender quotas in the first place!! It was also a mistake to rule out STV in favour of closed lists. If Plaid Cymru want the Senedd to have further powers (which I agree with) then we need the best individuals for the job. Based on meritocracy and not gender quotas. Had gender quotas been implemented then it would have played into the hands of the abolitionists.

After suppressing women in the work place since ever, try to level the playing field and its all "Down with that sort of thing". And looking around, I am not exactly sure we have "the best people for the job" on the male side that had not had lesser pay and had to take time out and many other issues blokes are not afflicted with.

So the MSs are 'creating a Senedd'? The people should create their Senedd. This has been done countless times around the world by civilised countries by holding a properly set up Constitutional Convention which writes a draft Constitution. Which defines how MSs are elected. And has a 21st Century Bill of Rights written right here in Wales. All to be ratified by us in a Referendum.

This article is very revealing about the mindset of our current crop of politicians. Siân Gwenllian thinks the Welsh government should have wasted everyone's time fighting a futile battle for a bill it doesn't have the legal competence to pass, because doing so would have sent a message that gender equality matters. Politics to them isn't about changing things: it's about posing, messaging and signalling. It doesn't matter whether your actions really advance gender equality: what matters is to show everyone that you believe in it.

Poor Cymru, run by the least able members of the family...

Sian Gwenllian is in the Nicola Sturgeon mode of feminists. " I'm a feminist to my fingertips" but she actually supports men who say they are women. It would have sneaked gender self ID into Cymru and this is why it failed. The Llywydd warned that the Senedd doesn't have legislative competence to go against the Equality Act 2010 but neither Labour or Plaid wanted their adherence to gender ideology questioned . It's not about equality but about promoting men who say they are women just by declaring yourself to be one. Women's Rights Network pointed out that the Senedd could have been 100% female under this proposed bill but they could have all been men. What sort of equality is that. Plaid Cymru is once again showing it's contempt for women who are 52% of the population in Cymru. Doing anything about Prosiect Pawb or is it more important to lie to us women. And can we say the word sex which has a legal definition and not gender which is a social construct?

Sian is either confused or is being disingenuous. This Bill was not designed for ‘equality’ at all. 1. It allowed up to 100% women but capped men at 50%. I’m no mathematician, but that is not equality surely? Sounds a lot like sex discrimination. 2. The Bill allowed anyone to state they were a ‘woman’ without any challenge or repercussion. 3. The notes issued with the Bill were clear that anyone could self ID. So all those ‘women’ could have been men. 100% men. Sian and her party have been strangely silent on these issues. If she was so concerned about equality, surely she’d be vocal and get these obvious glitches sorted out? Unless of course, it’s not about ‘equality’ at all, and is instead about advancing their manifesto position of self ID. They must take us all for fools.

'Labour the party of fairness' - that's a joke. She knows very well that men identifying as women would have been allowed in as women. When a party doesn't even know what a woman is we will never have fairness or equal representation. She should be totally ashamed of herself actively destroying equality for women. It's constant lies and playing around with words to hide behind the utter disgrace Welsh Labour has become.

Women don't need gender equality, we need sex equality. The Senydd isn't far off being balanced regarding the number of women and they got there on their own merits.

This was a ridiculous idea that could have resulted in a Senedd that had 100% women and all of them male, as you made the definition of woman anyone who identified as a woman. You would have enshrined gender self ID into law which has implications across the UK as we know from the Scottish debacle when S35 had to be enacted. No-one wants this, esp not women who know that there is only one type of woman and that is an adult human female.

"Labour, the so-called party of fairness". I never heard anyone refer to the Labour Party as such. Is Siân setting up a straw man/woman with the intention of knocking him/her down. Plaid Tegwch has a nice ring to it, but which party could claim it?