There is a lot of coverage of the explusion. Latest article from Herald talks to some expelled members. It is damning.
An email arrives from a member of the Scottish Greens. I say “member of the Scottish Greens”, I should really say “former member of the Scottish Greens” because, along with several others, they’ve just been expelled from the party with immediate effect. When I tell you what they’re alleged to have done, you’ll see, if you haven’t seen it already, the troubling state the Scottish Greens are now in.
The email lays out the events very clearly. Last year, a group of members and supporters signed a declaration calling for discussion in the Greens about its stance on women’s rights. Among other things, it said sex should not be confused with gender and that women and girls should have the right to maintain female-only spaces such as changing rooms. But signing the declaration has now been judged as a breach of the party’s code of conduct and any member that did so has been expelled forthwith.
The newly expelled Green member who emailed me also sent me a copy of the original complaint and I’ll take you through it because it’s a classic example of the sort of behaviour and dialogue that now surrounds this issue. According to the complaint, the declaration on women’s rights was “abhorrent” and an “attack on transgender people”. It also says the signatories should be expelled to protect “members’ safety” and alleges the rebels broke the rules against prejudice and bullying. Finally, horror of horrors, it says they were given the chance to retract their wrong opinions and refused to do so.
You’ll probably be familiar with some of these accusations already because they’re often made against people with opinions similar to the ones outlined in the declaration. For the avoidance of doubt, what the document says is that women and girls are subject to discrimination on the basis of their sex; it also says women have the right to maintain sex-based protections, the right to freedom of belief and expression and the right to discuss issues which affect them without being abused or intimidated. It is this that’s being called abhorrent and an attack on transgender people.
Exactly why the leadership takes this view isn’t clear from the letter the members were sent; it merely states that the party has concluded they acted in violation of the code of conduct and are therefore being kicked out; they are now non-members because of their non-acceptable views. I’ve tried to speak to the Greens about this sort of thing in the past but I always get the same sort of response: no details, no discussion, only repetition. One spokeswoman gave me one sentence: “we support the rights of our trans siblings and stand against all forms of prejudice”...
Scottish Greens: Expelled – more signs of trouble for the party
https://archive.is/dV9lV#selection-1623.0-1623.63
I am presuming they are waiting to get case together before announcing they are going to court. From the data we have gathered this could easily bankrupt the Greens.
They have to go scorched earth. It is the only way to save the environmental movement, but more than that end this nonsense permanently.