Who has the most phobic?
Zack Polanski really is a horrible man.
Newman: Well you said the Greens should be a broad church, but that all churches have walls, I mean your walls are potentially keeping women out of your conference aren’t they?
Polanski: Well I think they’s lots of women, including thousands of women who are inclusive feminists, who reconnize that trans rights are human rights –
Newman: So feminists are not welcome, only “inclusive” feminists.
Polanski: Well it depends on how you define yourself as a feminist, I would say if someone doesn’t support trans rights, if they don’t support the LGBT comunniny, if they want to be transphobic or demeaning to trans people, then no.
Newman: So are gender critical feminists welcome at your conference?
Polanski: Well anyone is welcome at the conference based on their beliefs, this is about how people behave, and no, no one is allowed to behave in a way – and I’m not talking about these people in particular, I’m talking more widely – in a way that is transphobic, I stood on a trans-inclusive ticket, I think that anyone who takes any notice of politics would accept that [if] there is a leader who stands for one thing they have an entitlement to say this is who is and isn’t welcome at the conference.
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But as always the question arises: how are we defining “transphobic”?
It’s not phobic for women to know that men are not women, and it’s not even phobic for women to say that men are not women. It’s kind of more the other way around, frankly. It’s misogynist for men to insist on being in women’s spaces and taking women’s jobs and prizes on the spurious grounds that they are “trans women.”
Men like Zack Polanski will never admit that though.
If you only stand for one thing, it seems to me that trans is a really shaky foundation. Not to mention, it seems a bit off message for a party calling itself the Green Party.
iknklast: Trans a “shaky foundation?” ??? For something that calls itself the Green Party?
Well, plants are green, and they transpire, and internally, they translocate stuff through their conducting tissues. Without them and all that, none of us would be here.! So ‘trans’ is everywhere, and includes everything.
(feminists are not welcome, only “inclusive” feminists. At a Greens Party conference.!).The tiny ~2% trans-sexual population appears to be out to maximise its political influence nationally by taking over a handy minor party. So how long before the US has a transPresident? And would he/she/it be better or worse than the present incumbent.?
My husband always said he suspected the first woman president would be a conservative Republican. Now it look like he could be wrong. The first woman president could very well be a man.