Eligible
“Are you a woman or gender variant?”
I beg your pardon? Why are those my options? Do you ask everyone that?
The British Green Party says in an email sent to its members that anyone who “identifies” as woman or “other gender variant” is eligible to vote in the next Women Committee Election, party members have said.
So men are the normal and women are the weirdo variant along with other weirdo variants?
On December 6, members of the Green Party received an email about registering to vote in the 2021/22 Green Party Women Committee Election.
“Check that you’re eligible to vote: You are eligible to vote in the Green Party Women committee elections if you are a member of the Green Party of England and Wales and also identify as a woman or gender variant.”
You can’t just identify as a member of the Party, but you can just identify as a woman (or “gender variant” whatever tf that means). Being one sex or the other is all in the mind, but being a party member, that is solid.
But if you don’t sign up you can’t get the constitution changed (repaired) so…
Hand me my boots, I’m going gender variant.
Does the omicron variant get a vote?
Probably!
I’d opt to be a gender varmint.
I detect here, Watson, the evil hand of that fiend Moriarty. He has produced this cunning plan to destroy the Green Party, and it appears to be working, just as surely as my name is Sherlock Holmes.
This is the second email they’ve sent about this (I tweeted about the first one a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed, I’m glad it’s caught people’s attention this time.)
Sp this isn’t a one-off slip-of-the-keyboard or mistake-by-intern, it’s obviously policy.
What I’m struggling to understand* is how you can be a member of the Green Party and not be gender variant. It’s not like patriarchy is going to save the planet.
*Rhetorically, I mean. Unfortunately I understand it only too well.
I’m half expecting women to be subsumed into the”gender variant” category and for the party to address its members as “laddies and gends”.
‘Gender variety?’ So that would include, say, trans men?
What about trans otters? I demand recognition of trans otters!
I originally saw that as an either/or question, but apparently it just means “non-male identifying.”
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