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Green Party - again

55 replies

Rightsraptor · 29/11/2021 22:33

I joined the GP in order to vote in their internal elections and try to change their direction in matters related to gender ideology.

This evening I got an email from Green Party Women calling for candidates and registering to vote and guess what it says?

"If you a (sic) member of the Green Party of England and Wales, and also identify as a woman or gender variant, you are eligible to vote in our upcoming 2021 Green Party Women internal committee elections. To register to vote, please sign up here confirming that you identify as a woman or gender variant and are therefore an eligible voter!" (why the redundant ! at the end?)

Next:
"Please note:
We recognise some women feel they are women rather than identify as women. This is how the wording is set out in the constitution, and we are obliged to follow it. We intend no offence by it."

I do not feel I am a woman, I do not identify as a woman, I AM A WOMAN. It is a state, not a feeling. I should not have opened that email before bedtime. I am not offended, I am raging.

I can't vote anyway because I will not tick any box saying I identify as a woman (or 'gender variant' FFS).

Tomorrow they get my resignation from their poxy party. Fuck them.

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Rightsraptor · 29/11/2021 23:11

Well, they are tying themselves up in stupid knots and it's their own fault. I can't be arsed to try to work out what they mean, all I know is I do not 'identify as' or 'feel' I am a woman.

Just emailed my resignation. I explained my thoughts.

Probably won't get any response.

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SpringCrocus · 29/11/2021 23:10

Please don't leave! Stay and fight from within.

Vermontfoliage · 29/11/2021 23:03

What is gender variant? I identify as pajamagender (lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Pajamagender), am I gender variant?

MonsignorMirth · 29/11/2021 22:55

So is woman a gender, in which case non-binary or agender females aren't - (are they covered by "gender variant"?)
Or is woman a sex?

I actually think they're trying to reach out with this message. It doesn't help any of the other nonsense but I think they're trying to say the 'right' thing to appeal to women-as-sex and women-as-gender people.

What would actually clarify things is if they actually define 'woman' and 'gender variant'. But we know they can't.

Bellendejour · 29/11/2021 22:40

Please explain why when you do it Star