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”.
Information from the Arts Council of Wales states that the public body is “currently undertaking a general update across our policies amending any specific references to gender (eg she/he/his/her) to ‘they/them’”.
A statement from the Council confirmed that documentation would be changed “as part of our continuous review process”, and that “if we come across gendered pronouns, we’ll be replacing them for the words ‘they/them’. » | Craig Simpson | Saturday, July 15, 2023
What a load of bollocks! This is woke bullshit! Left-wing, socialist crap! What on earth is Drakeford trying to do to Wales? And more to the point, what is he trying to do to the English language? To say nothing of wasting taxpayers' money. Enough already! – © Mark Alexander
