So ...
My thoughts:
- Stonewall are silent.
They shouldn't be. Attention needs to turn to them.
Questions: Did 'Aimee of the Problemstic Boundaries" work for them/advise them/ have input into their incredibly problematic advisory guidelines regarding Trans children? Advice which we know contravenes statutory Safeguarding guidelines?
Does Aimee still work with them?
Will they be reviewing any work done by Stonewall to which Aimee was advisory?
Next thought:
Having read through the NSPCC thread, something that leaps out is just how under-supervised the groups and committees tasked with producing work on Trans issues are.
Lack of oversight would appear to be something of a structural constant.
GirlGuide72's posts concerning the on-line communications of 'James-from-the-NSPCC-Trans-Group' is staggering.
He comes across as an ideologue, with poor understanding of his professional duties and indeed professional standards full stop.
How did such a poorly trained person end up in role? Who was supervising and monitoring him?
What oversight, generally, would there have been for the work he and his group prepared? Was it suitably thorough? Was it objective and properly researched, drawing on a range of advice, sources and voices?
Where was the Risk and Impact Assessment?
I raise this here because I think something that has emerged in the Green Party story is that lack of oversight was a part of the Safeguarding failure. There seems to have been a culture of 'We do not question certain groups in the way we would question others', leading to a staggering autonomy and lack of oversight and reflection.
My guess is that this isn't just a Green Party problem, it's a structural issue built into the whole 'only affirm' ideology.
Add to that the fact this is one of the most rapidly successful identity-rights based campaigns I have ever witnessed and you can see that organisations might be overly hasty and overly in recruiting people who seem to be informed about Trans identity/want to work developing rights . Concomitant with that, there is little oversight - perhaps other people in the organisation do not feel equipped to oversee and challenge with sufficient rigour.
Anyway. I think Stonewall are getting off the hook too easily.
Their very unaccountability permits their silence.
And that unaccountability is potentially quite dangerous.
And I also think there are issues in this Green Party story that raise questions about oversight and safeguarding in many other organisations.