https://sputniknews.com/uk/202106111083128452-women-urge-wales-to-drop-diversity-rule-ending-women-only-spaces/ Merched Cymru's demand coincided with a high profile Employment Tribunal victory for Maya Forstater, whose employer sacked her in March 2019 for alleged transphobia for tweeting her disagreement with the concept that a man literally becomes a woman by identifying as such. A Welsh feminist group has urged the devolved government to drop "unlawful" transgender staff policies that could see women fired for refusing to share toilets and changing rooms with men. Merched Cymru (Welsh Women) wrote to First Minister Mark Drakeford's Cardiff-based administration asking it to stop paying "unelected, unaccountable political lobbying group" Stonewall £6,000 per year to be part of its Diversity Champions scheme and its Workplace Equality Index.