'...if the Bute House agreement seemed a match made in progressive heaven, it has turned into a moral and political hellhole which, perhaps uniquely in the history of such arrangements, threatens both parties. ...
'Harvie faces what is effectively a confidence vote at an extraordinary general meeting of his party next month.
'...the most enduring Green policy bùrach has surely been the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. This was a law to allow 16-year-olds to change legal sex by declaration without any medical intervention or guidance. Some might argue it was more Sturgeon’s policy than the Greens, and she certainly embraced the trans agenda with reckless alacrity — and suffered the blowback before she resigned. But the bill was always said to be the Green Party “red line” for remaining in the Bute House deal.
Vetoed by the UK government, the bill is effectively dead following the scandal of trans rapists such as Isla Bryson being placed in a women’s prison. But Harvie clearly isn’t minded to bury the trans agenda. On the BBC he repeatedly refused to accept the scientific validity of the Cass report on gender services or the banning of puberty blockers.
Visibly angry, he suggested to the presenter Martin Geisler that Dr Hilary Cass, one of Britain’s leading paediatricians, is part of a transphobic “culture war”.
Indeed, the Green leader seemed significantly more indignant about Cass and puberty blockers than about broken climate promises. Harvie’s LGBT wing, the Rainbow Greens, have accused Cass of “social murder”.'