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BREAKING NEWS: Green Party Standing Orders Committee has ruled to disaffiliate Green Party Women as a special interest group - silencing representation for approx 25k female members in the party. Causing detriment to members on the basis of sex is ACT OF UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION
Congratulations to Bristol University feminists who have won legal right for single-sex associations: “Trans activists in academia thought we would wither away if only they bullied and intimidated us enough. But we refused to cower, disassemble or quit."
Let's not forget that Scottish Greens claiming to feel 'unsafe' sharing an office with MSP Ash Regan were happy for rapist Isla Bryson to share a prison with vulnerable women - a study found 80% of women in Scottish prisons had brain injuries from abuse.
There is an attempt to purge the Green Party of England and Wales of all members who signed a declaration on women's rights. Yes, you read that correctly.
Latest nonsense from Green Party Spring Conference. Now women are a "minority gender" and alongside non-binary people we are all "non-men". So, we have no meaning in ourselves. Do you see the misogyny yet?
Details of a third legal case being brought against
@TheGreenParty
over its handling of the way members are treated if they publicly speak up for women's sex-based rights.
Good sense has prevailed. Green Party Conference voted that the 'purging' motion should not go ahead by 297 votes to 209. So feminists remain to stay and defend our rights. 1/2
Man until recently a Tory candidate has adopted his ex-wife's maiden name, presents as a woman and has been selected as a
@TheGreenParty
candidate. A deeply dodgy online persona unearthed. Meanwhile, sound feminist environmentalists
@alisonclareteal
&
@GreenZoeHatch
suspended.
@TheGreenParty
have done no due diligence on Matthew Viner, amongst the ‘sissy’ content on his Pinterest (which is in his own name), he has shared a number of ‘jokes’ including this one
@carla_denyer
how much longer will you defend this man?
GPRC (the regional council) has held several emergency meetings this year to try and close down or 'disaffiliate' Green Party Women. This is an institutional and systemic attack on women's freedom of speech and right to assemble as women.
#GreenPartyWomenUnderAttack
OUTRAGED to learn that Nicola Watson, Freda Davis, & Eric Walker have been SUSPENDED without Investigation from
@TheGreenParty
These GC members were on Green Seniors committee & received news of suspension just hrs before their AGM & re-election.
#corruption
#discrimination
Attending tonight's EGM of
@GreenPartyWomen
. Hearing appalling experiences of abuse and discrimination being aired by women - and some men - within our party because they have spoken up for women and girls.
This comes after GPEX, the Green Party executive, has this month denied Green Party Women access to their email database, blocking them from communicating with members.
Poll shows gender critical views shared by most of UK population: "supportive of people who wish to identify as a different gender, but sharply defensive of women-only spaces and sports." The more exposed to the arguments the clearer that view becomes.
Two women report trying to buy the Sunday Times best seller Trans by
@HJoyceGender
from Waterstones Wimbledon. But staff ordered not to display it as it’s ‘hate material’.
@Waterstones
can you put this right or do you want to send your women readers to Amazon?
@nathankw
So a certain faction in
@TheGreenParty
wants a purge of gender critical members. It seeks legal advice, which tells them such a purge is discriminatory. A member leaks the legal advice - and is purged for doing so! Kafka wasn't fiction.
This election closes on Sat 2nd Oct. Karen Kruzycka, a disabled woman and mother, does not benefit from supporters with access to vast numbers of London Greens’ emails. But if you are a London member of the Green Party, consider giving her your vote in interests of fairness.13/13
How did
@TheGreenParty
sign a petition without consent of its members in support of using a cocktail of synthetic drugs to simulate lactation and a baby as a prop to feelings of 'motherhood'. Whose welfare are we protecting? Certainly not the child's or the planet's.
'Reporting' a private conversation he strained to hear, because strays from the Party orthodoxy. Sounds like Ethan would have been at home in East Germany under the Stasi.
It's a sorry day for the Green Party for a distinguished member to resort to legal action, but if
@ShahrarAli
succeeds, women across all political parties will be protected from bullying and intimidation when they argue that in some vital situations
#sexmatters
.
Sex-Based Rights vs Cancel Culture
I am challenging an unlawful discriminatory and oppressive campaign that would have me removed as the Green Party of England and Wales Spokesperson for Policing and Domestic Safety. 1/24
Anyone as outraged as we are by this development and the unfolding of
#GreenPartyWomenUnderAttack
please support the wonderful
@EmmaBatemanGPW
who is taking the Green Party to court for unlawful discrimination.
BREAKING NEWS: Green Party Standing Orders Committee has ruled to disaffiliate Green Party Women as a special interest group - silencing representation for approx 25k female members in the party. Causing detriment to members on the basis of sex is ACT OF UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION
Women-only lists 'were created as a corrective to female marginalisation.' The entitlement of males wanting in on them only proves the need for women-only lists in the first place!
The full story of what went wrong at the Tavistock.
How does
@TheGreenParty
explain its persecution of members who've raised these concerns for 5+ years?
This man shoves his way into women's spaces to tell women we need to be represented.
While the party shuts down the actual
@GreenPartyWomen
group and suspends and expels women who dare to say 'HE'S A MAN!'
@TheGreenParty
this makes you all look ridiculously unelectable.
A man who wears a wig and calls himself a "proud lesbian" has been supported as a candidate for the Green Party.
This is an insult to women. Stop pandering to men who parade their fetishes in public.
We'll be known henceforth not as The Green Party, but The Drag Queen Party: championing the rights of adult men to perform sexualised parodies of women to children without the usual safeguarding background checks.
Green Party has just passed Late motion Solidarity with Drag Queen Story Time/Hour. Couple of excerpts below - from synopsis & one of action points.
#DQSH
#GPC22
Fearlessly defying threats and arrests, Sharif University students celebrated their graduation without hijabs, standing up against compulsory hijab. As the Minister of Education issues threats and faculty leaders resign, our resolve strengthens. Iranian women won’t step back.
It is very disappointing, though unsurprising, to see that
@CarolineLucas
has signed an amendment to support a ban on conversion therapy.
She knows the ban will criminalise doctors who refuse to participate in mutilating gay and autistic kids at gender clinics.
What has happened to Pride? In Manchester, a banner celebrating someone who was convicted of kidnapping and torturing a teenager and in Ottawa, dildo ring toss.
On Friday night a vote on whether a motion to purge feminists from the party should be on the agenda was held - but not counted. A decision was made - very quickly and without debate – to re-run it Saturday at 10.30am. 2/6
The vote of Saturday will be taken by people who have not heard all the arguments. Many of those who did hear all the arguments and attended on Friday are women with children who are not free to attend on Saturday mornings. So their votes will not count. 3/6
Leading Greens have been cheer-leaders for
#Mermaids
,
#GenderGP
and
#Tavistock
. If you went along because you thought it was 'being kind', but now have doubts, get in touch. Let's work together to prevent more harm.
It’s fascinating to watch the unravelling of Mermaids. I started questioning it 6 years ago and was called a bigot, a child-killer and a bitch. I want to say “I TOLD YOU SO” but first I want to scream “HOW COULD THIS HAVE TAKEN SO LONG FFS?!?!”
We're confident the remaining committee will continue to support women's sex-based rights and to work collaboratively with others who prioritise a different kind of feminism. /3
A great shame to see four members of
@greenpartywomen
stage a planned resignation at tonight's meeting with a pre-prepared email to the members they are letting down. /1
This is explosive for
@TheGreenParty
!
Forensic expose of the discrimination faced by gender critical members.
Legal advice to the Party, linked here, makes it abundantly clear this continuing harassment and silencing is unlawful.
Must do better
#ForWomenAndPlanet
#GPC23
#GPC2023
I've written for
@TheCriticMag
about the bullying of Green Party members by the party itself, for the "crime" of believing in the importance of biological sex. It's a sad indictment of a party that should be focused on fighting climate change not itself
We wish
@GreenPartyWomen
committee well and are looking forward to now being allowed to hear more about their support to lift up women in politics and in life! /5
This is the 3rd chair of Green Party Women suspended by the party for highlighting discrimination against women! The other 2
@EmmaBatemanGPW
and
@DawnFurness
now bringing legal actions.
Those running the Friday plenary in which the vote wasn’t counted included the people who had decided to allow the late ‘purging’ motion onto the agenda in the first place – even though it doesn’t meet the criteria for a ‘late motion’. 4/6
He urges them to vote against Karen Kruzycka, a candidate who knows
#sexmatters
and wants to represent the specific needs of women in the Green Party. 12/13
If you are appalled as we are by the Green Party shutting down Green Party Women - join their mailing list now! They need your help - this is the first step in the fight back against the attacks and discrimination against them.
Now
@steflib
is not neutral on the issue of women’s rights. In fact, 4 months earlier in the poll for deputy leader of the Greens he had used the derogatory term “TERF” against
@greenandreac
on Twitter. 8/13
Instead of declaring this result, which was confirmed by the party’s Standing Orders Committee, the electoral returning officer
@StefLib
attempted re-run the election. 7/13
In a coup aggressors 1st seize control of the TV/Radio. Equivalent happened yesterday when a co-chair of
@GreenPartyWomen
(the 1 who attacked a women's rights banner at conference) switched all GPW emails, preventing majority committee speaking 2 members
Do you see how
@NHSTayside
are
#ErasingWomen
? Following the
#Stonewall
style guide that replaces "women" with "people who have internal reproductive organs" or "anyone with a cervix" and then wonder why women don't get smears...
But in Nov 2020, Green Party democracy prevailed and
@greenadnreac
was duly elected. Fast forward to Sept 2021 and the post of female rep is up for election again. This time London Greens don’t risk another 'TERF' winning the vote. 9/13
So,
@PatrickHarvie
is apparently now worried about abuse and "toxic" debate. But mainly when he's on the receiving end. Let's have a non-exhaustive look at all the times Harvie has tried to elevate the conversation:
#HarvieHatesWomen
The contentious issue dividing the candidates was whether
#sexmatters
in law and in the lives of women and girls – or whether gender identity should matter more. 3/13
Why would MSP
@MaggieChapman
pose for pix with with Beth Douglas, who in March tweeted violent threats: “POV you’re cis on
#TransDayOfVisibility
and we are going to beat you up for it.”? Scottish Greens are shaming us all.
Suspicions were raised when the time allowed for voting was extended twice by the electoral returning officer and then a draw was announced between
@greenandreac
, who says that
#sexmatters
and
@rosemarywa
who says it doesn’t. 4/13
@sheffieldtrib
Alison is a superb Green MP candidate, which is why she was the resounding choice of local members. Shocked and saddened by the ideological sect within the Green Party that has orchestrated this campaign against her because she speaks up for women as well as trees!
Thanks to all who voted in the Green Party Women election. The results show a recognition in the party of the support our sex needs in order to participate in politics and move towards the level of political representation already enjoyed by men.
Green Feminists have experienced 1st hand more than 5 years targeting by a weaponised complaints system & internal democracy. Now we discover
@TheGreenParty
knew all along this was illegal. /1
Thread on the background to arrest of a man for calling Patrick Harvie 'deviant'. Given Harvie's own liberal use of the term on social media, it does seem OTT by Police Scotland - especially having failed for 7 weeks to even identify a man inciting decapitation of women.
1./ Is it bigotry to call Patrick Harvie a deviant? No. He's spent his entire career pushing the incoherent agenda of 'Queer Theory' which deliberately erases moral boundaries, women's safety, children's mental health and the rights of homosexuals.
So they try a different tactic. Instead of an election at a Zoom meeting (which pesky women might attend in numbers) they run an online ballot that might attract more votes from keyboard warriors. 10/13
Back in November 2020, the London Federation of Green Parties held an election for who should represent London females on the Green Party Regional Council (a powerful body in the Greens). 2/13
A very sad day when
@TheGreenParty
conference votes against women's rights. It has truly disappeared into a strange place that serves only Big Pharma and male power.
“As a child, I loved toy cars & trains, taking things apart & figuring out how they worked."
Female scientists' childhoods in the days before gender identity ideology set rigid categories for boys & girls.
Only 1 of 5 people on the Standing Orders Committee that applies the rules of how conference is run is not a supporter of the 'purging' motion - and they have been shut out of this morning's pre-plenary planning meeting.
Yesterday I tweeted something to
@Jgicriminolg
about Gender Self ID. Been amazed at the engagement so thought I would say a bit more. For a short while I was Probation Officer in a Multi Agency Public Protection team. I met a lot of sex offenders.
Ashamed that a Green Party councillor is publicly accusing a member of the public of 'hate speech' at a council meeting where she raised the issue of an Equality Policy relating to toilet provision. Councillors should represent all - including women and girls.
I later discovered a tweet by Councillor Laycock stating that hate speech had been allowed in the council. It was non-specific but could only have related to the questions that I had posed.
There is an urgent need to make women's refuges safe for women. That means excluding all males - however they identify. We must not be the collateral damage of the so-called trans rights movement.
Thanks
@LauraPidcock
for speaking out against this violent rhetoric and naming the state of fear pervading the Left.
It's time for all socialists to stop looking the other way and stand up for women!
#ForWomenAndPlanet
Violence against women is wrong, full stop. Encouraging people to punch “terfs” in the face, esp when cheered by hundreds (as happened at Trans Pride) should worry us all. That many on the left look away is indicative of a fearful culture,silencing many basic feminist principles.
In court today former Green Party chair
@lizreason
concedes
@ShahrarAli
was subject to concerted abuse from trans activists within Greens but for party leadership to intervene would be 'unhelpful'.
ER: We could not take a side in this argument as will be unhelpful
JJ: I suggest your both sides argument is overstated. I think you would accept the majority of abuse from one side?
ER: Re SA, yes.
Green Party Women are stepping up for a fight!
GPW will hold an EGM to talk to members about the party's discrimination against those with GC views.
EGM: Tuesday 01/08/23 6.30pm
Register for the meeting by 6.30pm on 30/07/23
Details for members are here
We hope
@sajidjavid
's inquiry into the rise in numbers of children referring for gender dysphoria treatment will consider the role of BBC children's programmes an schools in falsely promoting puberty blockers as 'safe' and 'reversible':
@brunskellevans
The huge jump may be partly because
@TaviAndPort
advertised their service on a BBC children's TV programme first shown in 2014, and repeated numerous times since then. In this clip, Dr Polly Carmichael talks about the 'benefits' of taking hormone
#pubertyblockers
.
Gosh, a grown-up at the Guardian has noticed what’s happening to women and sneaked this story in
A growing number of organisations have been found to have discriminated against women because of their views. What are employers learning from such cases?
Judge steps in to curb
@jon_bartley
attempt to broaden his evidence in court to a wider political attack on
@ShahrarAli
. The animosity between the 2 goes back to Greens' London Assembly list selection in 2016 when Ali beat Bartley on a recount.
JJ: You are making a political speech full of wild allegations none of which are relevant. You are trying to broaden the attack.
JB: I think it is relevant
J: A question isn't a cue for a talking point
JB: My apologies
Congratulations
@JoPhoenix1
These legal wins for are piling up. Time after time courts rule that it is illegal to discriminate against people who advocate for women on the basis of our sex.
An Employment Tribunal has found that Prof Jo Phoenix, represented by Annie Powell at Leigh Day, was discriminated against and harassed by her employer, the Open University, because of her gender critical beliefs. She won her claim for constructive dismissal.
Jaw dropping. On oath, barrister Cathryn McGahey, a member of the bar ethics committee, likens lesbians' sexual boundaries (excluding males) to the murderous, racist state apparatus of Apartheid.