Fanatics win another round
Another friendship broken over the endlessly escalating demands of trans ideology:
A schism has erupted in environmental politics after the Scottish Greens voted to cut ties with the UK party over claims of “trans abuse”.
Meaning abuse that identifies as abuse but is actually just a non-conforming opinion?
Members overwhelmingly backed a motion to suspend “formal association” with the Green Party in England and Wales on the second day of their Scottish party’s conference in Dundee.
Terfs in the sugar bowl was it?
The Rainbow Greens, a group representing LGBTQ+ members of the Scottish Greens, submitted the motion, accusing the Greens of “transphobic bigotry”, “homophobic bigotry” and disrespecting the devolution settlement.
I’m beginning to wonder of Scottish trans ideologues are a little bit too zealous even for other trans ideologues.
Guy Ingerson, who is vice co-convenor for Aberdeen Greens, proposed the motion as a temporary “tool” to demonstrate the Scottish Greens’ “intolerance of intolerance”.
Or their fanatical enforcement of a lunatic ideology.
The Scottish Greens’ accusations of transphobia follow co-leader Patrick Harvie’s call this year for the expulsion of Shahrar Ali from the party after the candidate for the deputy leadership of the Greens, who came third in the election, was compared to Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the issue of trans rights.
In other words trans fanatics called Shahrar Ali names.
In February the Scottish Greens criticised the opinion of Emma Bateman, the co-chair of Green Party Women, who was suspended in February for her opinion that “humans can’t change sex”.
What hope is there for a political party that kicks people out for stating obvious impersonal facts?
The party claimed that her signature on the Women’s Declaration International, which aims to make rights “sex-based”, amounted to “asking [for] the removal of all rights trans people currently have under the European Convention on Human Rights”.
In other words fanciful new rights bestowed on trans people are incompatible with women’s rights, and the Scottish greens think women just have to take it and shut up.
Likewise the former MSP Andy Wightman resigned over a disagreement with the Scottish Greens about an amendment allowing victims of sexual crimes to choose the sex, rather than the gender, of the person who examined them.
Which IMHO is an argument for ‘sex’ categories to be confined to issues of biology, and for ‘gender’ categories to be confined to French verbs and other such grammatical categories.
I’m all for rape victims having rights, but wouldn’t it be a bit impractical if we had the right to choose a doctor with a specific one of the hundreds and hundreds of genders which allegedly exist? Scotland is a fairly small country, after all.
Are all of their positions diluted to homeopathic degrees of insubstantiality? Who knew you’d need a mass spectrometer to work out the organizational details of a political party? That payroll’s gonna be spread mighty thinly over so many entities, co-entities, and vice-co-entities.
The planet is burning or flooding, depending on where you live, and the party that is supposed to be the political force to prevent this fall out over this stupid luxury belief. If this is a climate emergency, you do what you do in an emergency – forget your differences with opponents, ally with people and groups on this one issue even if you disagree profoundly on others.
The Scottish Greens lost one of the best MSPs at Holyrood, Andy Wightman, over this. The whole transgender movement is a wrecker – it wastes time, energy and temper and gets people divided over this tiny minority cult. Its capacity to destroy is equal to the SWP, which wrecked many a campaign by their entryism.
There are some decent Greens in Scotland eg some councillors, but the parliamentary party has made this devil’s bargain with the SNP so that they have a couple of ineffectual ministerial jobs. They seem far more concerned with independence and transgender issues than with the environment. The SNP greenwashes itself but is not green.
Greenpeace criticised the SNP’s stance on exploiting new oil fields. The Greens sided with the SNP against Greenpeace, on the grounds that they didn’t really understand Scotland. That is, they sing the nationalist song instead of the environmental one. They really are a waste of space.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/05/scottish-greens-obsessed-independence-climate-change/