The Green Party manifesto has been launched this morning.
www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/Elections/Green%20Party%20Manifesto%202019.pdf
Not much of surprise in it. They don't use the word 'sex' (but use 'gender' instead), nor 'sexism'. I'll list the main points (in no particular order)
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Remove the spousal veto (they mean spousal consent) in the GRA so that trans widows remain trapped in marriages.
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Change the law so an X gender marker can be added to passports for non-binary and intersex people
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Update the Gender Recognition Act to allow trans youth and non-binary people to get legal recognition through self-declaration. (only 'trans youth' and 'non-binary' people? no one else?)
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Support employers to explore the benefits of offering menstruation and menopausal leave to workers
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Improve access to high quality care during pregnancy and ensure that all women are entitled to the care of a single midwife through prenatal care, birth and the first month of post-natal care
- Make misogyny a hate crime across the UK and increase the police’s capacity to deal with domestic violence and misogynistic hate crimes. (I don't think the GP realise that misogyny refers to FEMALES, not males)
- Funding to support the prevention and prosecution of all hate crimes will be increased
- police officers will be given further training in this area
- need an intersectional approach to hate crime, which recognises the groups of women who are most at risk
- Develop and implement a UK-wide strategy to tackle gender-based violence, including domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and trafficking:
-working with perpetrators to prevent them from continuing to abuse
- reverse cuts to legal aid to prevent survivors being forced to represent themselves against their abusers in court
- introduce a new Domestic Abuse Bill, which enables prosecution of economic abuse
- Roll back the cuts to domestic violence support centres and women’s refuges, and increase funding to provide more safe and secure accommodation for women and their children
- Put funding for Rape Crisis Centre services on a sustainable footing
- increase and ring fence the Rape Support Fund and ensure funds are provided via the Victim Surcharge
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Extend the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights to give women in all EU countries access to legal, safe and affordable abortion services
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Establish a new press regulatory regime which will allow women to make formal complaints about media coverage that will encourage misogyny against women
- allow for third party complaints to be made, on behalf of women negatively affected
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Introduce a regulatory framework for online harms to ensure social media companies take responsibility for how their platforms are being used and invest in technological solutions to address misogyny and online harassment. (this sounds like the GP want to force platforms to censor anyone who criticises gender identity ideology which they will class as 'harassment')
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Increase funding for areas of the NHS heavily relied on by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer and Asexual (LGBTIQA+) people, including trans healthcare, gender identity clinics, HIV treatment and mental health provision. (they don't make it clear why these people's health needs are more important than other people's)
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Properly fund training to support the delivery of comprehensive, age- appropriate Personal Health and Sexual Education (PHSE) lessons in schools covering all aspects of sex and relationships, with a focus on consent
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End the opt-out of LGBTIQA+ inclusive PHSE classes at school to ensure that every child learns about different types of couples and families that make up UK society. (because parents should have no rights over their kids....)
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Train school staff in spotting and stopping sexual harassment and bullying
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Fund schools to provide free eco- friendly sanitary products to pupils