Zack Polanski telling it like it is

I think if Farage got in, we'd have a lot more to worry about than single-sex spaces.

Yes, in an interview in The Canary, widely quoted elsewhere.

It’s very “problematic” for women and girls.

I’m sure it’s not pleasant to find out that someone you admire is actually a misogynistic shit, but this has been what the Greens have been for years now.

He thinks single sex spaces are “horrific” and that the Equality Act defining sex as being biology, like everyone else does, is “transphobia”.

You didn't say, "Polanski says that he believes in supporting trans people," you said, "Polanski believes in supporting trans people."

It might be pedantic but there is a big difference in meaning between the two ways of reporting his position.

The latter suggests support for his position, including the implications of what he might mean by "supporting trans people" so I'm glad that this isn't what you meant.

Wow the Polanski propaganda machine really going for it on mumsnet

He's insane

Supporting trans people by trampling all over the rights of women and girls.

A misogynist then, if you don’t like him being called anti-science.

It’s possible to “support trans people” without believing that a) their rights trump women’s rights and b) children should be permanently mutilated before they’re old enough to fully understand the consequences of the decisions they’re making.

The Green Party thinks that both of those things are just fine and dandy.

GC women don’t.

It’s funny how no party ever makes women’s rights one of their hills to die on. Trans rights though? They’re queuing up to offer support and understanding there.

Women matter too. If a party shows that it is actively disinterested in protecting and safeguarding both women and children they won’t ever get my vote. I’d spoil my ballot before voting for them.

And now we know why you're a fan. Should have guessed.

The Green Party is now the trans party:

Green Women's Declaration were told that they could have a stall at last weekend's Conference but were then banned because attendees would have felt unsafe if they had to walk past a couple of middle aged women with leaflets.

One of their deputy leaders posed for a photo op where she and other Green Party members wore Protect the Dolls tshirts.

Worst of all, Conference voted for a "trans healthcare" motion which opposed the Cass Report, trampled over safeguarding and supported giving harmful puberty blockers to vulnerable children.

but not women

so that's why I don't support him

Unfortunately, @Hellohelga , I think you're right. I was looking for the clear, sound environmental policies, but it's just taken a low priority.

Yawn. He’s a total charlatan. He knows absolutely nothing about anything. It’s all soundbites and hashtags. If he taxed the rich he’d have to tax his own family and even he isn’t stupid enough to do that.

He’s going to kill the Green Party stone dead. Can’t think who vote for him. Humourless, hectoring, intellectually challenged. Believes in environmental science but not biological science.

I just watched it
actually I agree with him about a wealth tax, and I think he's right that most ordinary people don't get the scale of some people's wealth...they think wealthy people are those who live in the big houses on the other side of town and believe- well, they worked hard for that money, they took risks/have a lot of responsibility/create jobs....and we need people like that. And yes we do. But those aren't the super rich, we never see those people.

BUT I will never vote for this man and am unlikely to vote for any green candidate for parliament for all the reasons mentioned here- most especially their disregard for women's interests and safety and voices and their endorsement of the mutilation of children. All that particular brand of madness is going to come crashing down sooner rather than later and we will have a scandal that makes Thalidomide look like a minor scandal. Unfortunately for Zack Polanski and his ilk, their wilful blindness to science and common sense has been well documented by themselves and it will be grimly entertaining watching them try to excuse themselves.

Meanwhile, we have climate and extinction crises which he, the leader of the Green Party somehow failed to mention.

I am actually a Green Party member though god knows for how much longer. I know many people doing excellent boring work on local councils actually trying to improve things for ordinary people, showing commitment both to the environment and social justice. I'm happy to vote for them IF and only if they can explain to me how and why they will defend women and children.

Biological reality is biological reality whatever Zak thinks

either he's a total idiot who can't understand biology

or and what i suspect in the case, he knows perfectly well what a woman is but is utterly prepared to lie about

neither of those make me even slightly inclined to vote green so yep still politically homeless

He's a creepy, self serving misogynist who is only out for himself.
For anyone who was taken in by his broadcast, I'd recommend reading this thread.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/politics/5410185-zack-polanski?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

The top one percent pay 30% of tax in the UK. If they leave we will lose a lot. It’s not trickle down economics here @Dayglobooit’s tax revenue we will lose out on.

He's the best of a bad bunch. We've had a Tory/Tory light government since the 80s and look at the shit we're in.

No, it’s a science- and reality-based fact. There is no credible science that supports a man becoming a woman. None. Anyone who claims otherwise is indeed a snake oil salesman.