Green Party split from group at centre of trans row
Green Party split from group at centre of trans row
Green Party Women's committee argue they are being punished for members' gender-critical views.
Green party, go off. Do not tolerate intolerance.
Indeed. The party itself supports trans rights so they should take a zero tolerance stance especially when it comes to hate.
Exactly. Don't do what Labour is doing, trying to thread the needle and just pissing off everybody.
I don't understand why labour feels the need to try and appease people. They got this one in the bag they might as well take the opportunity to do away with irritating identity politics.
Seriously just tell the old crowd to get lost, if they want to appeal to the younger voter then the old crowd aren't doing them any favours at all.
The party's official position is that it supports transgender people and backs making it easier to change legal sex via self-determination.
But there are long-running tensions with members who hold gender-critical beliefs, which includes that a person's sex cannot be changed.
They mean gender right? Who in this is confusing sex and gender again? Is it the green party or the BBC or both, I literally cannot tell after reading this.
"Gender critical" people chant "sex cannot be changed" like a mantra.
It's not meant to make sense. It's not even a real argument, because it's overly vague and doesn't even attempt to address the arguments of their opponents. It's just a flat reassertion of their ideology. And if you follow gender criticals for long enough, you will see that they do this constantly.
My guess is that the error originates in one of the Green Womens' Group terf people that the article quotes at length. Article authors repeated it in their own text and subeditor didn't pick up on it.
The BBC has had a lot of TERFy journalists (as has The Guardian), so could be they intentionally ran with the line used by this disaffiliated GPW group.
Gender identity cannot be changed, that'd be akin to conversion therapy.
Gender expression can be changed, and it's part of socially transitioning, but trans people do change their sex through hormones and surgeries.
My current understanding is this:
Sex is chromosomes, immutable, unchanged, majority binary with some exceptions (xxy etc).
Gender is expression and roles, which is just social construct stuff, how it's expected genders to look and act, tradition, doesn't really matter, can change as we see fit.
Your post has very much confused me, would you defining sex, gender, gender expression and gender identity for me?
I'm an ally but I need concrete definitions to make arguments against the anti-trans folks.
TERF island is at it again…
Why do they have so many terfs there anyway? Is it something in the water?
Good to see the Green Party of England and Wales catching up with the Scottish Greens on this issue. Maybe next they can kick out the people who oppose building high-speed rail because every tree has feelings.
They're not a political party they are just a single issue activist group run by unrealistic ex hippies.
They're the same type of people that say that nuclear energy is as bad as fossil fuels, which really undermines their own philosophy, and that genetically modified crops are the root of all evil conveniently forgetting that they've been in use for decades at this point. If it weren't for nitrogen fixing plants we probably will be dead by now or at least have a severely depleted population.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senior members of Green Party Women (GPW) claim the group was "disaffiliated" because of their promotion of "gender-critical views".
The party's official position is that it supports transgender people and backs making it easier to change legal sex via self-determination.
The BBC has seen documents that show the Green Party disaffiliated the GPW for failing to run its planned Autumn 2021 committee election until January 2022.
Zoe Hatch, the GPW's most recently elected co-chair who is currently suspended from the party, described the decision as a "convenient way for the ruling bodies to shut down the women's group".
Emma Bateman, a former co-chair of GPW who was briefly expelled from the party, said the disaffiliation was to "demonstrate that women stepping out of line will be punished".
The party also supports making it easier for trans people to change their legal status without the need for a Gender Reassignment Certificate (GRC).
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don't let the door hit you on your arse on the way out, terfs.