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Jul 2 5 tweets 2 min read
Decent summary by outgoing Chair of report commissioned to capture EDI challenges of GPEW.

Recognition conflict around sex & gender has resulted in culture at odds with our values. Members should be asking GPEx candidates how they propose to engage.

greenworld.org.uk/article/drivin… Ongoing conflict around sex and gender at odds with core val
However analysis arguably upside down with respect to cause & effect.

Conflict around sex/gender largely arisen *because* a culture of authoritarian intolerance & groupthink cancel culture has been allowed to predominate.

Chief suspects #nodebate & transphobic smear campaigns.
Report correctly identifies key ingredient for positive change as "forums for discussion".

That recommendation needs to be amplified. Members have been driven out by targetted abuse & harassment for stating gender critical protected beliefs, facilitated by weaponised complaints.
A previous candidate for Deputy leader in 2000, Andrea Carey-Fuller @greenandreac was driven out of party by targetted campaign of harassment.

We have lost scores of brilliant women campaigners. We have recently witnessed misogynistic abuse on open display at business meeting.
Brushing sex/gender conflict under carpet won't achieve needed change nor misdiagnosis of problem.

You have fantastic candidates at this set of GPEx elections. Members please vote for those who understand magnitude of problem & won't wishfully misdiagnose it.

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Jul 3
Must read, challenging policy role & influence of @Mermaids_Gender in promoting gender-affirming experimental drugs for questioning, vulnerable kids looking for sanctuary. Fervour which Green pursued surgery for her own child cause for alarm. @jo_bartosch
spiked-online.com/2020/07/03/mer…
"[CEO, Green] recalls how, as a boy, Jack was made to feel shame about his preference for ‘girly’ toys & clothes by his father, at one point asking his grandmother ‘can you buy me Barbie Rapunzel, but hide it because if mummy and daddy find it they’re going to take it away’."
So why exactly was this young boy "made to feel shame" for wanting these toys? Surely these parents are guilty of projecting their own stereotypical prejudices about wrong toy syndrome?
Read 7 tweets
Jul 1
You know what's really sad is having people on here yesterday, who should know better, telling me I should have done more during local elections without even knowing what I did do.

We need to get to a place where we don't try to guilt trip our activists for "not doing enough".
That's profoundly demotivating. Every hour a member dedicates is precious. I spent time in more than one local party, even if I didn't Tweet about it, & was thanked for it by local officers. That's Green way.
I was thanked, for eg. for taking an afternoon out to collect signatures for non-target candidates "one of few to do so" so we could get close to a full slate in a Borough which ended up delivering our first councillor & in an area I had previously stood as GE candidate.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 21
Full judgment Rosario Sanchez vs University of Bristol handed down today. Some points to follow in thread. 1chancerylane.com/wp-content/upl…
Judge keen not to adjudicate on transgender debate as such but opens with a lazy definition:

"A person may identify their gender as different to their apparent biological sex assigned at birth. Thus a person born of male sex may identify as a woman and vice versa." (§ 15)
What is only apparent here? Their biological sex? Gender being conflated with sex?
Read 11 tweets
Apr 21
Excellent exposition from @MForstater @HJoyceGender on why conversion therapy Bill muddled, ill-judged & risks endangering children in particular. theguardian.com/society/2022/a…
"Proposals [@guardian] endorse would make it harder for therapists to explore what may lie behind gender distress. Common underlying causes incl. stirrings of same-sex attraction, undiagnosed autistic-spectrum disorder, trauma from abuse &..living in sexist, porn-saturated world.
"Result is that, in these places [where ban], gender-distressed children are more likely to be fast-tracked to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgery – and a lifetime of medical problems, including sexual dysfunction and sterility. This is the true “conversion therapy”."
Read 4 tweets
Mar 10
Indomitable @joannaccherry: "Women are particularly vulnerable in war because of their sex. This is because women are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence at the hands of men. That violence is sex-based and directed at women because of our biology. Sex matters." #IWD2022
"What you cannot define you cannot protect, and what you cannot name cannot be properly discussed and debated. That is why the stealthy erasure of sex-based language from our statute book and public and private policy making should be resisted."
"It is also why politicians and policy makers should be precise in their language, and should not conflate sex and gender."
Read 8 tweets
Mar 10
Today's @thecassreview Interim Report for gender identity services for child & young people sets out:
👉 Lack of robust evidence base
👉 Need for more specialist services
👉 More comprehensive care, including psychological & social support
cass.independent-review.uk/publications/i…
#CassReview
Link to full Interim Report cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/upl…
👉"The care of this group of children and young people is everyone’s business."
1.16. Another significant issue raised with us is one of diagnostic overshadowing – many of the children & young people presenting have complex needs, but once they are identified as having gender-related distress, other important healthcare issues.. can sometimes be overlooked. Risk of overlooking other important healthcare issues.
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