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LGBT\+ communities experience disproportionate inequalities across a wide range of issues, including access to health services; bullying, discrimination and hate crime; poorer mental health; and overall life satisfaction levels.  This disadvantage is further compounded when the needs and vulnerabilities of being LGBT\+ intersect with other protected characteristics including age, race, sex, gender, religion and disability.


We have been working closely with LGBT\+ communities to develop an LBGTQ\+ plan for Wales.  Initial engagement with over 600 participants last summer was followed by the establishment of an Expert Panel comprised of people with a depth of community\-based, professional, organisational, academic and personal lived experience to inform this work.  The Expert Panel has met several times in recent months to clarify the issues which must be addressed in a new plan if we are to achieve substantial change and improved outcomes for all our LGBT\+ citizens.


I am pleased to receive the panel’s final report, which includes 61 recommendations covering all of the main areas identified through the earlier engagement.  These are arranged under six main themes: Human Rights and Recognition; Safety; Home and Communities; Health and Social Care; Education; Workplace.


The report requires, and will receive, careful consideration, but it is already clear to me that the recommendations are well considered and robust.  I therefore welcome the report wholeheartedly and have instructed my officials to engage across Welsh Government departments to agree the actions to be included in the plan and taken forward.


The Expert Panel has recommended that from this point on we should use the acronym LGBTQ\+ in relation to this work.  Both the panel and the Welsh Government recognise that there are different views and usages across our communities, and that practice is likely to change again in future. 


We will also ensure that the plan is aligned as closely as possible with the Welsh Government’s Strategic Equality Plan and other plans to advance equality and human rights, including our Gender Equality Plan, the Framework for Action on Disability and the forthcoming Race Equality Action Plan. 


A draft LGBTQ\+ Action Plan for Wales will be published for consultation following the Senedd Cymru elections in May.


It is vital that the lived experiences of LGBTQ\+ people guide the content and actions of the plan throughout its development.  There will therefore be further engagement opportunities for LGBTQ\+ people and stakeholders, as well as the wider public, to share their views on the plan during the public consultation phase before the Action Plan is finalised.  I am particularly keen that young people be included further in the discussion and we will work with representative organisations to reach as many people of all ages as possible.


I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the members of the Expert Panel for their hard work and dedication which has enabled us to reach this crucial stage in developing the new plan.  I also thank everyone who been engaged in the work up to now and encourage as many as possible to contribute to the consultation which will follow later this year.







Translation:


 
Mae cymunedau pobl lesbiaidd, hoyw, ddeurywiol a thrawsrywiol (LGBT\+) yn profi anghydraddoldeb anghymesur mewn pob math o ffyrdd, gan gynnwys mynediad at wasanaethau iechyd; bwlio, gwahaniaethu a throseddau casineb; iechyd meddwl gwaeth; a lefelau boddhad cyffredinol mewn bywyd. Mae’r anfantais hon yn dwysáu ymhellach pan fydd yna nodweddion gwarchodedig eraill hefyd yn wir am yr unigolion hyn, gan gynnwys oedran, hil, rhyw, rhywedd, crefydd ac anabledd.


Rydym wedi bod yn cydweithio’n agos â chymunedau LGBT\+ i ddatblygu cynllun LGBTQ\+ ar gyfer Cymru. Yn dilyn gwaith ymgysylltu cychwynnol â dros 600 o bobl haf diwethaf, lluniwyd Panel Arbenigwyr o bobl sydd â phrofiad cymunedol, proffesiynol, sefydliadol, academaidd a phersonol eang i lywio’r gwaith hwn. Mae’r Panel Arbenigwyr wedi cyfarfod sawl gwaith dros y misoedd diwethaf i gytuno ar y materion y mae angen rhoi sylw iddynt mewn cynllun newydd os ydym i newid y sefyllfa yn sylweddol a gwella pethau i’n holl ddinasyddion LGBT\+.


Mae’n bleser gennyf gael adroddiad terfynol y panel, a’r 61 o argymhellion sy’n cwmpasu’r holl brif feysydd a nodwyd yn y gwaith ymgysylltu cynharach. Mae’r rhain wedi’u trefnu o dan chwe phrif thema: Hawliau Dynol a Chydnabyddiaeth; Diogelwch; Cartref a Chymunedau; Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol; Addysg; y Gweithle.


Mae angen ystyried yr adroddiad yn ofalus, a dyna fydd yn digwydd, ond mae eisoes yn glir i mi bod yr argymhellion yn rhai teg a dilys. Rwy’n croesawu’r adroddiad yn galonnog, felly, ac wedi rhoi cyfarwyddyd i’m swyddogion drafod gydag adrannau Llywodraeth Cymru er mwyn cytuno ar y camau i’w cynnwys yn y cynllun a’u gweithredu.


Mae’r Panel Arbenigwyr wedi argymell y dylem o hyn allan ddefnyddio’r acronym LGBTQ\+ mewn perthynas â’r gwaith hwn. Mae’r panel a Llywodraeth Cymru yn cydnabod bod yna wahanol safbwyntiau ac arferion ar draws ein cymunedau, a bod pethau’n debygol o newid eto yn y dyfodol. 


Byddwn yn sicrhau hefyd bod y cynllun mor gydnaws â phosibl â Chynllun Cydraddoldeb Strategol Llywodraeth Cymru a chynlluniau eraill sy’n hyrwyddo cydraddoldeb a hawliau dynol, gan gynnwys ein Cynllun Cydraddoldeb rhwng y Rhywiau, y Fframwaith Gweithredu ar Anabledd a’r Cynllun Gweithredu arfaethedig ar gyfer Cydraddoldeb Hiliol. 


Caiff Cynllun Gweithredu drafft ar gyfer LGBTQ\+ i Gymru ei gyhoeddi ar gyfer ymgynghoriad yn dilyn etholiadau’r Senedd ym mis Mai.


Mae’n hollbwysig mai profiadau pobl LGBTQ\+ sy’n llywio cynnwys a chamau’r cynllun ym mhob rhan o’r broses. Bydd cyfleoedd pellach, felly, i bobl LGBTQ\+ a rhanddeiliaid perthnasol drafod a rhoi eu barn yn ystod y cyfnod ymgynghori, yn ogystal â’r cyhoedd yn gyffredinol, cyn i’r Cynllun Gweithredu gael ei gwblhau’n derfynol. Rwy’n arbennig o awyddus i gynnwys pobl ifanc ymhellach yn y drafodaeth, a byddwn yn gweithio gyda chyrff cynrychiadol er mwyn cyrraedd cymaint o bobl o bob oedran â phosibl.


Hoffwn achub ar y cyfle hwn i ddiolch i holl aelodau’r Panel Arbenigwyr am eu gwaith caled a’u hymroddiad sydd wedi ein galluogi i gyrraedd y cam hanfodol hwn yn y gwaith o ddatblygu’r cynllun newydd. Rwyf am ddiolch hefyd i bawb sydd wedi bod yn rhan o’r broses hyd yn hyn, ac rwyf am annog cymaint â phosibl i gyfrannu i’r ymgynghoriad yn nes ymlaen eleni.