Thread by @southessexwep

🧵 Trees have 3 sexes, male dioecious, female dioecious and monoecious. Councils and planners like to plant dioecious male trees as they don’t seed, drop fruit or flower wildly and most important to councils, messily. This is good for their street cleaning budget but not for us

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in nature there’s a natural even mix of all 3 tree sexes ensuring that the amount of pollen wafted into the air is regulated. When planted independently of dioecious females the pollen is unchecked by any capture from female flowers resulting in an uptick of pollen in the air and

You guessed it, hayfever and allergy symptoms spike. You may wonder why you can holiday somewhere with lots of trees and have mild / non existent allergies then return to a city / urban area and be up to your eyeballs in sneezes and piriton. This is the reason, no female trees.

The rising number of allergy sufferers. Your council is literally making you sick. The exclusive planting of male trees in urban areas is written into policy for most councils. It’s botanical sexism to do so. we’re checking Southends & will get back to you…

@Southend0nSea and it’s rainbow administration have called a climate change emergency. Favouring planting male trees with rising CO2 levels causes them to bloom more and again further increasing the pollen count. A recipe for a terrible future allergy disaster in our city

in nature as in life #sexmatters ! To favour the male as it’s perceived easier to manage is to cause wide ranging harm.The UK has some of the highest prevalence rates of allergic conditions in the world. Women & girls who’ve experienced puberty are the most effected. Knowing this

Will @SouthendLabour , @SouthendInd & @SouthendLibDems commit to making change with the sexes of trees they plant? will @Southend_Tories support any future motion to ensure our city is less harmful to not just females but all residents?We look forward to hearing from you.END