I resigned from the Green Party, of which I had been a member for about 10 years, and stood in 5 local elections.
I was horrified that any debate on trans issues was not even allowed. The Stonewall orthodoxy was sacrosanct - I've never known as issue quite like it. Ordinary members who dare to even raise the issue are labelled transphobes - which is second only to racist in terms in the hierarchy of undesirable slurs. And as frustrating is the amount of air space being given to trans issues which affects less than 1% of the population - unlike women issues who make up 51% of the population! We've got a climate and ecological emergency going on here and you're worried about what sodding pronoun you're called! 3/7/2021 the dismissal of scientific TRUTH that has been known for millennia is what scares me most, it can only lead to chaosRead Now I'm working class, 50 years old and have voted Labour all my life. I've thought about voting The Green Party because of their environmental policies. It has been distressing and infuriating to see how ideologically captured 'progressive' (the irony) parties have become; ignoring women's and lesbians rights, voices, dignity and safety concerns as well as the safeguarding of children (that has horrified me) The vicious and misogynistic activism that has targeted any women who dissent or raise concerns (usually with compassion & a request for a reasonable discussion in an attempt to protect women's and trans rights) and how it has not been condemned by Labour or The Green Party is frightening. I am now politically homeless - how could I ever vote for a party that doesn't recognise objective reality? In some ways the dismissal of scientific TRUTH that has been known for millennia is what scares me most, it can only lead to chaos. I am so proud of all the women and men who are dedicating their lives to fighting this madness. Thank you - I know that many of you have suffered professionally and personally. I am in awe of your bravery and dedication.
3/2/2021 I felt the [scottish green] Party was a place so hostile to debate and question I would be forced to leaveRead Now I was an active member of the Scottish Green Party and very committed to the SGP agenda. I wrote to the CoConvenor as I was concerned concerned about an inaccurate posting about JK Rowling she’d made on Twitter. She refused to accept my concerns and invited me to discuss it further on zoom call with her and the Party’s Rainbow co-Convenor. During this meeting, I was vilified as transphobic and it was suggested I leave the Party. A few days later I received notice of an official complaint against me for breaching the code of conduct. I provided evidence to demonstrate I had not done so. I was asked to delete some Tweets I order to remain in the Party. I did remove the Tweets, although they were not transphobic, but I felt the Party was a place so hostile to debate and question I would be forced to leave. Notably, Andy Wightman, A SGP MSP, left the Party a few weeks later for the same reason. I am bitterly disappointed, both in the Party and myself. I wish I had had the courage to stay and fight, but I did not.
3/2/2021 I will not vote for Labour, the Greens or the SNP again unless they start listening to womenRead Now I have always been on the left, which by my birth country's standards (France) is more to the left than in any English speaking countries. I was always a gay rights supporter. I have known transsexuals since I was 8 years old. Never had an issue with LGBT advocacy.
I knew that there was misogyny on the left, but the worst misogyny was always coming from the right, as far as I could see. That was until I became aware of transactivism and how the entire left supported it. The #metoo movement had only happened for a year or so when suddenly women were told to stop talking about male violence or male sexual behaviour ... because it was transphobic to recognise sex and the predatory behaviour of males. And the people shutting women down were left wing. I was a left wing SNP (Scottish national party) supporter after being labour for many years. But the way labour, the greens and the SNP are prioritising the rights of males to have full access to women over the rights of women to our own category, spaces and advocacy has lead me to leave the SNP. I will not vote for Labour, the Greens or the SNP again unless they start listening to women. 3/1/2021 It has also unleashed a wave of misogynist rage which I haven't seen in my lifetimeRead Now A few years ago, I was a paid up UK Labour member, was member of a union, and went out canvassing for Labour. I care about environmental issues, social and economics justice issues, and land reform. I have worked in unions and in left-wing think tanks. In short, I was and still am left-wing, and have consistently voted Labour or Green.
However, I can no longer do that, sadly. I have been shocked at the speed with which many in the Labour party and the Greens have embraced gender ideology, and turned against women who are critical of it. From the Greens hustings in which candidates debated 'what is a woman' (answers included 'an attitude', 'a state of mind') to Lisa Nandy's appalling Piers Morgan interview. The disgraceful so-called trans rights pledge which called for gender-critical women to be ousted from the Labour party. Oh and how could I forget Dawn Butler saying that 'children are born without a sex'. The list goes on. If it wasn't so dangerous, this would be hilarious. However it is dangerous. This ideology is unscientific and untethered from reality. It insists that we view ourselves as having a 'gender' rather than a 'sex' - which makes invisible the reality of sex. It undermines women's rights and harms children. It has also unleashed a wave of misogynist rage which I haven't seen in my lifetime. And the worst of it, from what I've seen, has come from left-wing men. So no, I haven't left the left, but the left has left me. I won't be voting for Labour or the Greens again until they regain their senses. For documentation of our struggle in the Green Party of the United States, please see: http://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/
"The Lavender Caucus of the Green Party has issued a statement calling on the Georgia state party to retract its endorsement of the “Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights” or face decertification by the national party. It is perfectly normal for Greens to have different viewpoints on this issue, as we do on many issues. The Green way to resolve such differences, however, is to talk to each other with an openness that seeks, at a minimum, a mutual understanding of alternative points of view. We—members, volunteers, contributors and supporters of the Green Party of the United States—therefore urge that instead of the action proposed by the Lavender Caucus a respectful discussion of these and related issues be organized. We ask that all member state parties, caucuses, candidates, and locals of the party take a step back from any suggestion that state organizations or their members be decertified, sanctioned, or silenced for positions they have adopted, or for concerns which they may have expressed on these important issues. We value decentralization, grassroots democracy, and a united Green Party—which will be especially important in this difficult election year. The political principles that unite us remain far more important than the questions where we clash, significant as those questions might be." The Left is my natural home as my focus is the environment and human rights...universal health care...free education...rigorous scientific research. Feminism is an integral part of my life.
I was a Greens candidate a few times and a leader in this region for over a decade. But the Greens and the Left in general have abandoned women and have sold out their environment policies to multinational companies that are being permitted to rort the Paris Agreement, via offsetting and carbon credits. Rainforests are being destroyed via this scheme, for palm oil plantations. Women are being erased by transgender ideology and the Greens and the left are the biggest offenders. I have not swapped political sides as I have little in common with the right...but more conservatives are speaking up for women’s sex based rights, than Progressives. Who could have predicted that upside down turn of events? I now realize that the Left/Right divide in politics is equally as much a social construct as transgender ideology. Each issue must be researched and examined on their own merits and groupthink can be a very dangerous thing. They are both engineered to cause division and heartbreak. Gullible, well meaning people follow both blindly. I hate terminology now but it is true that I find myself politically homeless along with my so called ‘radical feminist’ sisters. I will not vote unless I can find one of them to vote for. I can’t used mixed toilets. I had a lucky escape some years ago. Toilets are not safe when men can access female toilets.
I hate what men are doing to women, they are not defending trans rights. They are misogynists that want to eradicate women’s rights. I am a woman, not something by any other name. I will not vote labor or greens and unless the liberal party stands up to defend the rights of natural born women and girls I will just scribble over the ballot papers and lodge a nil vote. I'm an Australian woman who has voted Labor, Greens or Socialist for the lost 20 years. Upon realising what is happening to women's rights and to young girls under the left's insane gender ideology policies, I will for the first time ever be voting conservative in coming elections.
In my home state of Victoria, Labor has introduced self-ID laws, allowing any man to gain legal protections meant for women and girls by simply signing a statutory declaration. They have just passed legislation criminalising gay conversion therapy but have included 'gender identity,' meaning that clinicians will have no choice but to affirm a child's self proclaimed gender identity. This is terrible, especially for young lesbians that will be mutilated because of this. The Australian Human Rights Commission is all for these changes and issued guidelines for including males in women's sports that have been adopted by 10 peak sporting bodies. I simply cannot support the left until they come back to reality. For most of my 36 years of legal adulthood, I was a card-carrying member and organizer of Canada's federal and provincial Green Parties, back then we were known as "watermelons", Green on the outside, Red on the inside, zero growthers, fully socialist. It's not just feminism that lost the plot, Green parties everywhere became electoralist, globalist, elitist, capitalist, growth-motivated, "green lite", greenwash-stained by corporate involvement.
This loss of our Green centre followed the same pattern as the loss of the female centre in women's and feminist groups/institutions. The centre was lost as groups became bureaucratised, democratised, government financed, and stood to lose financing, jobs, infrastructure, if they did not toe the government PC guidelines. Bureaucratisation killed feminism, Bureaucratisation killed the Greens, Bureaucratisation killed leftism. Who to vote for now? Spoil my ballot? In Canada, spoiled ballots aren't tabulated as such, so the only option is to vote for the bottom candidate, the least likely to achieve be elected. "Gender" isn't the cause, it is a symptom of a deeply diseased Left, lost to globalism, cheap labourism, "you should have stayed-home"ism, loss of free speech, censorship, conformity, religiosity, guilt, and so much more. |
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