The motion
More on the Green Party’s suspension of the co-chair of Green Party Women:
A bit of background.
There has been an ongoing ‘debate’ between some trans-activisits and others, particularly some feminists (derogatorily called TERFs – Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists).
Emma Bateman is co-chair of Green Party Women and brought the following motion to the Green Party’s recent conference. The motion was not heard and Emma was not allowed to speak at the conference. She has now been suspended from the Green Party. I will not go into the reasons for the suspension since it is a matter of on-going disciplinary proceedings. However, I think it is important for people to see the motion that caused such upset (including from the leadership) within the Green Party:
Ensuring Sex and Gender Are Not Conflated
Synopsis Final Text
Sex refers to biology which is immutable, gender is a social construction Discrimination against women may be based on their perceived sex, however there are aspects of discrimination females face based on sex not gender.
To address discrimination it is imperative that accurate sex- segregated data is collected.
Motion
Insert into RR540Women’s Rights
The Green Party calls for a review of the language used in law, in government bodies and NGOs to ensure that sex and gender are not conflated, and that accurate terminology is used where relevant which recognises that the category ‘woman’, which was formerly a sex based category, is now, by some parties , considered to be gender based.
When data is being collected and analysed to form policy in relation to women, attention should be paid to whether the data is segregated by sex or by gender, and sex segregated data must be collected in order to monitor the effect
of[that] the alteration in the categorisation of women is having on women.
For that, the party suspended her.
The irony could be that they are suspending the people in the demographic most likely to contribute time and money to their success. In favor of a group of woke activists who really aren’t devoted to anything and mostly function as contrarians to be against things and stir things up and be the center of attention. They are not going to stuff envelopes, knock on doors, or write checks for the Green Party. They are just going to troll around the internet, googling for anyone that uses the word “woman” so they can attack.
That is their reason for being: to attack others while boosting their own sense of virtue and righteousness. The minute the Green Party jumps through all their hoops, they will show with new hoops, this time ones that are on fire.
I am very old. I can remember all the way back to the time that TRAs used to accuse TERFS of conflating “sex” and “gender.” “Sex and gender aren’t the same thing!” they’d say to me. “You need to learn the difference!”
“No, I know that,” I’d reply. “That’s what I’m trying to say.”
Why, I can recall it like it was 2019.
Right, you need to write “womxn” instead. Oh wait, no, that’s transphobic, because it implies that “women” doesn’t already include transwomen, and that you would need to write it with an X in order to include them. Oh wait, no, that was last week; now you’re supposed to write “womxn” again. Oh wait…
This is madness. This is Orwell level totalitarianism. “Newspeak.”
If “trans” is a real thing, that means that “cis” women need their own statistics. Unless these maniacs are going to now insist that there are zero/no/none/nada/zilch differences. Then, presumably we can dispense with both “trans” and “cis” (I realize that many of you already want to dispense with “cis.”) and move on to the happy world where everybody can self-identify any way they want, without any “gate-keepers.” (Although I suspect that genuine women won’t be able to opt-out of misogynist abuse and that predatory men won’t be acting very “lady-like” in women’s spaces.
So, if a trans-woman sits beside me on a plane, does that mean they can’t manspread? Because in that case, I would be more than happy to buy into their delusion, at least for the duration of the flight.
@iknklast: sounds like you’re buying into outdated 1950s era ideas that it’s “unladylike” for a woman to sit with her legs spread? If it’s okay for a woman, then it’s okay for ALL women, especially trans women, who are women. Women can sit or stand or dance or do as they please without YOU policing their deportment. And your comment reeks of slut-shaming. Gosh, you’re so old fashioned, you’ll next be claiming that women have babies!