“Green Party : handful of people” in the party are undermining trans people’s “right to exist”

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letterem · 14/07/2020 22:26

From Amelia Womack : She says tackling “all forms of discrimination and bigotry” within and outside the Green Party is “essential”.
In particular, she argues that “a handful of people” in the party are undermining trans people’s “right to exist”. This is in reference to a long term struggle in the party, where a small, unrepresentative group of members have opposed the Greens’ policies that support trans rights.

On you go , handful of people .

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LillianBland · 14/07/2020 22:43

I wonder if I think really really hard about undermining my horrible next door neighbours’ right to exist, will they disappear? Is that how it works? Or is it just an absolute load of bollocks, that doesn’t actually mean anything other than trying to make people feel guilty?

wellbehavedwomen · 14/07/2020 22:41

Beatrix Campbell has written a really powerful piece on all of this. Completely eviscerates this idiotic determination to frame women with legitimate concerns as denying anyone else's right to exist. It's dishonest and manipulative and frankly rather sinister, the determination to recast women saying, hang on a minute here... as a denial of humanity.

"There is a fundamental problem – already evident in politics, in the institutions, from banks to publishers, in the voluntary sector, in sport, and in schools and universities – if a man is a woman because he says he is, then the category woman is emptied of meaning. How can we address the fact that women everywhere in the world are put upon, discriminated against, oppressed, under-paid, unpaid, raped and disrespected because they are women?"

7Days · 14/07/2020 22:39

Well actually I misquoted, she said undermining our right to exist. It's still bullshit though.

Anyway, carry on Handful.

SheWhoMustNotBeHeard · 14/07/2020 22:38

I'm politically homeless :(

SheWhoMustNotBeHeard · 14/07/2020 22:37

Emotive overstatement.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/07/2020 22:36

”Denying our right to exist”

What drama llamas.

Dozer · 14/07/2020 22:32

Yes, bullshit.

7Days · 14/07/2020 22:30

Denying our right to exist is such bullshit

That is all

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