Watch: Shahrar Ali on necessity for fostering mature debate on women's sex-based rights - for its own sake & to help make us credible political force on climate emergency. We need to be reality-based in all our policies. #RealityCheck 👇
One of key planks of my campaign, as some of you I hoipe will have noticed, is women's rights. And I deliberately talk about it as women's rights. This party has become hostile to women who want to talk about the threats that they feel towards their single sex or same-sex spaces.
We have to be at the forefront of politics in this increasingly hostile environment, to say no, we can have a mature debate. There's nothing transphobic about talking about the protected characteristic of sex as enshrined in the Equality Act.
Examples of that hostility is we have a deputy leader candidate of last year who felt unable to continue in the party, who resigned - Andrea Carey Fuller @greenandreac. We have magnificent women campaigners, Bea Campbell @beatrixcampbell for example who have left.
And it affects men as well - Dom Armstrong @ArmstrongRenew resigned as a councillor. So we need to listen to these people, these deep greens, and understand why are they doing that and are we betraying the best of the Green Party's values?
So I say that we need to make ourselves credible and part of that credibility is to induct yet again what we used to have in this party - which is a mature culture of debate and respect.
For info: Dom resigned as a councillor earlier this year. Coverage here and elsewhere: sunderlandecho.com/news/politics/…
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