I love being on HRT so much, but being happy about it is just making me cry more" says Green Party Women's leader

These new politicians are a true gift...

To the Tory party.

Well Bristow appears to be on message regarding winning over voters.

I agree, but it is so sad.

We need a singles issue environmental party to hold the government of the day to account.

Reminds me of an interview with Cissie Charlton (Jack Charlton's mother) on Irish tv. She spent a short while working in a wealthy house in London. Food was not to be wasted where she grew up and she compared this with the fact they put milk on the hall tiles to shine them up. She saw this as a waste of the milk. They literally spilt it on the floor when it was designed to be used for nourishment.

I hope no woman has to do without the HRT she needs because resources are being used for males.

The green party need to be honest about the fact that they have changed their philosophy, their policies, their raison d'etre. They are now the trans party. Which is fine. People need to be informed about these things. Then they can make their minds up whether to join.
Ditto the lib dems.

Are they hawking their business then? Promoting cross sex hormones to possible clients?

Is selling cross sex hormones like that still legal in the UK?

@glinner absolutely slayed the head tilt. After reading his squib on it (on his Substack, I think?) you can't see those headshots in the same way ever again.

And it's not HRT if you're not a woman, because it's not replacing hormones lost via menopause. It's synthetic cross-sex hormones.

I never took them for menopause (although I read that they're good for this dratted insomnia) but it is enraging that women who need HRT are suffering a shortage but there's plenty for unnecessary medication - because aren't we told ad nauseam that it's transphobic to expect that transwomen do anything to alter their bodies?

Kathryb Bristow "loving being on HRT so much..." is not purely a personal statement. Kathryn Bristow is 'Pathway Advisor at GenderGP'. Enthusing about female hormone treatment can only be leading statements in such a job.

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Here is Kathryn Bristow on the GenderGP site explaining how to change both name and gender marker on passports.

www.gendergp.com/changing-my-gender-marker-was-easier-than-i-expected/
Author:
Kat Bristow, Pathway Advisor at GenderGP.

"Please never join, thanks"

Great membership recruitment strategy.

Here is something that came up earlier in the year, regarding the Green Party position on TW. Sian Berry is co-leader of the party in England and Wales, so this is not just a member of a branch being opinionated on twitter.

Regarding double-standards, it reminds me of the Mrs Gloss make-up group. A woman and a transwoman posting selfies of themselves always got a very different tone of reply.

Does Sian Berry genuinely expect good rational people to give up their time to canvass for ‘leaders’ like this? And does she expect that the message being given out is one that will appeal to an average floating voter?

I am convinced that people disaffected with other parties (plenty of Tories don’t like Boris, and plenty of Labour/libdems feel homeless) would vote Green if it had a clear environmental message, and the cohesion to focus on that message.

But that is a very long way from where it is now.

Anyway, as a Green, I'm not really liking this person so far, based on this callous, misogynistic and downright insane tweet:

mobile.twitter.com/KathrynBristow/status/1343576561627361281

I would LOVE to forget about sex and remove it as a concept, but unfortunately the female body won't let me do that. Spoken like a true prostate owner...

It just beggars belief

I think the double standards are appalling. I cannot think that women would respect women who propose to be political leaders tweeting in this fashion. Yet, they are supporting these tweets and yes, some people are calling it brave. They really are down the rabbit hole and cannot see their own hypocrisy.

In my experience, bursting into tears for seemingly no reason isn't 'feeling your emotions', it's clinical depression

Mood swings can be linked to hormonal imbalances, so it makes sense that a trans person with medically altered estrogen/testosterone levels might feel a bit teary. But does the whole world need to hear about it? It's not a sign of womanhood, if that's what they're thinking.

It’s mind-boggling. I have today left the Green Party. Have had my doubts for some time, but having a man as co-chair of Green Party Women was the last straw. I mean, a feminist man would be one thing - we can sure do with more feminists among men - but I’d still not agree with a man as chair of women’s group. A man who says he’s a woman and female? Would he do yoga with us next?? In his/her ‘solo-polyamorous’ capacity? Kathryn’s profile on Twitter is very revealing. I read a lot today about Green Party’s support for trans issues over any other issues; I had not previously realised that there was such a push within the party for everyone to agree that trans women were women with no room for debate. I miss the time when I innocently believed that the Greens were about the environment and staving off climate catastrophe!

Women's officer, doing something women in a political post wouldn't do in public because embarrassing, derogatory and unhelpful to women, and which would pretty much end a woman in a political post ever being taken seriously, being respected or considered fit for the job.

Thereby demonstrating, TW are TW, who can freely behave as TW and be read by the general public as TW, and benefit in doing so from the male privilege which makes a huge difference. Whatever. If TW can and wish to get away with this kind of behaviour and not being taken seriously, crack on. I'm all for diversity in public posts, and the kind of public image they want is something the TW community get to decide for themselves and deal with the consequences of. But by extension this demonstrates that TW should not be in female posts, taking away these opportunities from females and damaging the very hard won little respect and foothold in public life that they have managed to gain.

Thanks Chewbecca.

delirium HRT used to be made from pregnant horse’s urine but now is made from synthesised yams so is (I believe) vegan friendly.

Where is the Green Party leadership? Asleep at the wheel?

I do cry a lot, but that is due to grief, not hormones. I find this person's comments beyond offensive.