Christinapple · 29/11/2024 15:07
"The Green Party are supportive of LGBT rights yes including trans people and that isn't going to change. I emailed them earlier this year expressing concerns about their involvement with "Green Party Women" and how their views re LGBT rights (and other topics such as sexwork) were in direct conflict with the views of the main party."
In late October 2023, the very existence of Green Party Women was cancelled. They had offended the trans activists and were to be punished. People holding so-called gender critical views were suspended or ousted. Here's a copy of part of an email sent on 23rd Oct '23:
GPRC want to bring down Green Party Women
It has been clear for some time that GPRC are keen to close down Green Party Women. In April and June this year GPRC held two emergency meetings to try to have the GC members of GPRC expelled from the party. You can read more about that sorry saga here. It was only the heroic efforts of Martha James and others that prevented this from happening. Now Martha has stepped down as GPRC Co-Chair citing her reason that “GPRC is not working as it should”. Personally I think Martha massively understates the corrupt practices she and others have witnessed. Now she has stepped aside it is becoming clearer for all to see.
In the email I wrote to you last week I said I was taking legal advice, that is because we received yet another email from a large number of people who yet again claimed that we were transphobic for advocating for women’s rights to safety, fairness and dignity on the basis of our sex. They were calling for an EGM to get rid of us.
Organised attack in summary
In total now, there have been 8 complaints made against the GC members of GPW. 5 have come from Chesca Walton, all calling for us to be expelled from the party. GPRC have had at least 2 emergency meetings to try to suspend us, SOC have been asked to rule against us as unconstitutional, SOC facilitated a rogue report going out against us, allowed a defamatory attack against us to go unchecked at the AGM and then prevented us from speaking in our defence at the GPEW conference, all in an effort to publicly humiliate us. Members have been galvanised to engage in a transphobia smear campaign that seeks to shut us down. When we finally speak up about this, after months of what feels like being in a deeply abusive relationship, the party decides to try and silence us to stop YOU the membership from knowing what is going on.
This is, of course, also an attempt to silence the women from the Green Women's Declaration who will be giving their presentation and Q&A to Green Party Women on Thursday evening - an event which I am scheduled to chair.
I am happy to report to you that I am YOUR Green Party Women Co-Chair. There is nothing that can be done to silence me and my fellow GC members.
The days of bullying and silencing women in this party are behind us. We stand strong and we stand together. We do not recognise the authority of this GPRC NFS and we will continue.
Warmly yours,
Zoe Hatch
Green Party Women Co-Chair.
P.S. There is every chance that this is the last email I will be able to send to you via Action Network. If you would like to be kept up to date with developments in the party PLEASE sign up to the Green Women’s Declaration mailing list linked here. You do not have to be a signatory to join the mailing list and your details will be kept confidential.
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Green Party Women then disappeared from the network completely until the end of January 2024. In my local area, most of the people who ran the organisation locally were suspended or sacked. I was horrified. It seems incredible that just a few complaints from bad actors (TRAs) should bring down a whole section of women in this way.
Now I know that you were one of those bad actors @Christinapple. One of the casualties of the purge of women was the Green women's bookclub. I used to enjoy reading the books and discussing them in a nerdy way with other women. I don't actually enjoy spending my entire time wondering whether men ought to be allowed to pretend to be women or not. I would rather read books, and think about my community, and spend time with my friends, and do enjoyable things with other women.