Thread by @ninavallins

Spoiler: election results show that the "debate" faction has a blocking minority on @VictorianGreens State council, the party's governing body. The gender radical faction still has a majority, but the minority should stop them making extremely ridic decisions.

https://twitter.com/crikey_news/status/1658672439054815233

Thorough anaylsis from Guy Rundle: "The “gender” group wants, and has recently got, the state party to commit completely to the total “gender affirmation” model — you is whatever you say you is — ...

and to explicitly ban, and label as transphobic, any internal debate that questions whether categorisation by embodied sex (in state institutions such as hospitals or prisons, for example) should play a role in a more complex modelling of sex and gender in social life..."

The “gender” group, whose most visible public face is the activist Bianca Haven, has prospered with the support of state Greens Leader Samantha Ratnam and Senator Janet Rice. Initially a younger insurgent group, it had been recruiting hard — “recruiting? It’s a stack!”, ...

- remember Haven? Tweets in support of Nazis, child rape and incest. Has a lewd account which shares rape fantasies. Yep: face of the gender group in the Greens. -

https://twitter.com/greensdebate/status/1649329401891553280?s=20

"The war has spilled out beyond party confines & into Nine media, with duelling pieces by Chip Le Grand —who wrote a sympathetic piece on philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith— and Broede Carmody, who adopted the standard usage of “TERF” to describe the arguments of the “debate” group.

"However, it seems reasonable to say that the “teal” space the Greens might once have seen as a place to expand, as inroads into working-class communities stalled, has now itself stalled. The party’s turnover has been substantial"...

“Part of me wants to save this party,” another targeted person said. “But I also think, let them have it, and see,,. They’ll divide against themselves. Let’s see what phoenix rises from the ashes.”

All of which is to affirm again that it’s not easy being… oh you’ve heard it?"

It is worth saying that the gender radicals are a faction, who vote in bloc, stack branches and working groups, and aim to promote gender ideology at the expense of all else.

Rundle calls the other "side", the "debate faction". It's true that opposed to the genderists are people who support debate- but they are not a faction. They are members who share a commitment to liberal democratic values, independent thinking, etc.

Anyway this language is all very silly. The only organised faction in the party is Sean Mulcahy’s Queer Greens fiefdom.