The Green Party would

They want to enshrine it in law. They’re really going with that.

The Green Party would give biological men a legal right to compete in women’s sports under proposals drawn up by its members.

The plans, which could become party policy within weeks, would “extend trans people’s rights” so they can compete in the categories “they feel most comfortable in”.

Which will make it impossible for women and girls to have fair sports.

The proposals have been submitted for debate at the Green Party conference in October, as an amendment to another motion calling for an end to “gender-based blanket bans” in sport.

In other words a return to the 19th century situation in which women couldn’t play team sports at all.

Under new government guidance published this year, public bodies must ensure sports teams are segregated based on biological sex, not gender identity.

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Proponents say the changes are necessary to protect the integrity of women’s sports and keep female athletes safe.

However, the Green Party motion warns that sporting bans at “any level” have “serious consequences” for the physical and mental health of trans people. It also suggests that rules against biological men competing in female categories are rooted in “historical colonial and Eurocentric attitudes”, as well as “transmisogyny”.

What about the serious consequences for the mental and physical health of female people? Why don’t those matter?

In the long term, the amended motion urges the party to “legislate to protect and extend trans people’s rights to participate in sports in the gender categories they feel most comfortable in”.

But why should their most comfortable overrule women’s most comfortable? How is that fair or reasonable?

The original version of the motion – titled “Oppose Gender-Based Blanket Bans in Sport” – has been approved for debate at the Green Party conference in October. 

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The synopsis states: “Sport allows people to stay physically and mentally healthy. Sporting bans at any level, especially attacking trans people, have serious consequences for gender diverse and global majority peoples’ mental and physical health. We need to stop blanket bans, and hold sporting bodies accountable.”

But what about girls’ and women’s mental and physical health? Why do the Greens keep catastrophizing about trans people’s health while completely ignoring the health of half of all human beings? Why do the loonies who push this crap think trans people are so much more important than women?