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! I have left the Labour Party due to their trans women are women policy. I believe that trans people should have equal rights with other humans but I do not believe that trans women are women or trans men are men - they are trans women and trans men. I have never had involvement with Stonewall as whilst I am a lesbian, I have always felt that they are essentially an entirely conservative lobbying group, aiming for hetero normative goals such as equal marriage and the military.
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