Veering
Feminism? Meh. Anti-racism? Bleh. Internationalism/multiculturalism? Yawn.
The Green Party=The Trans Party.
The Green party is veering away from its founding culture towards a more leftwing authoritarianism, its former health spokesperson has claimed.
Dr Pallavi Devulapalli said trans rights had become an obvious totem in the new climate, and accused the party of trying to purge anyone with gender-critical views.
Devulapalli, a GP and member of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk council, was expelled from the party for a rules breach that she has said was due to her beliefs on gender. Her expulsion this month, she said, has exposed a rift in the party’s leadership on transgender issues that threatens to widen during this summer’s leadership election.
But the rift or rifts have been happening for several years.
The party’s current co-leader Adrian Ramsay, who has argued that members should not be thrown out for saying trans women are not women, is pressing internally for Devulapalli’s expulsion to be reviewed.
Members should not be thrown out or ostracized or yelled at or punished in any other way for knowing that men are not women.
Devulapalli was suspended last September, three months after she failed to back the party’s manifesto policy on the right of self-identification for trans people during a hustings event. Last week she was informed she had been expelled from the party after attending what Devulapalli said she thought was a social gathering, but which a disciplinary panel deemed was an official party event from which she was banned because of her suspension.
Yeah great. They ostracize her, then she accidentally gets near some of them, so they kick her out. Lovely people; so very green.
Devulapalli is now one of 25 “Greens in Exile” – former party members who have been suspended or expelled largely for their gender critical views. Last year a court found the party had removed Dr Shahrar Ali as a party spokesperson in a procedurally unfair way that discriminated against him because of his gender critical belief. In 2021, Ali’s position as spokesperson is understood to have prompted Siân Berry, now an MP, to quit as co-leader.
Devulapalli said the party’s belief that trans women are women was “peddling a falsehood”, adding: “It denies science and denies reality and alienates the Greens from the vast majority of voters who know the truth when they see it.”
Quite so. It’s a fantasy, a fiction, a story, and grownup political parties should not be imposing fictions on its members.
Following April’s supreme court ruling that a “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, the Greens’ policy has come under strain. In interviews since, Ramsay, who is standing again as co-leader with fellow MP Ellie Chowns, has refused to commit to an answer, but Carla Denyer, who is standing down as co-leader, has said that “trans women are women [and] trans men are men”. Zack Polanski, a leadership challenger, is campaigning on the slogan “trans rights are human rights”.
But of course trans women are not women, which is why they’re called trans women. That’s the whole point. It’s not just a descriptor, like “friendly” or “wise” or “decent”; it’s a negation. Trans women=men who claim/pretend to be women. It’s fatuous for adults to keep saying pretend women are women.
Veering? Doesn’t that imply that the turn is in progress?
I’d go further and say they completed the turn years ago.
And, of course, nothing to do with the environment. But they lost that a long time ago with all the other issues. They aren’t green; they are just identifying as green.
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And even if they still gave a crap about the environment, why should anyone take them seriously?
Green Party candidate: “There is overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is real and urgent“.
Climate Change denier: “Say the people who think Eddie Izzard is a woman.”
Crowd: “Hahahaha!”
(I was actually a member of the Norwegian Green Party for a while. I only realized how bad things had gotten when they sent out a survey a few years ago. The very first question was about gender identity, and the available options all presupposed agreement with gender ideology. I cancelled my membership right there and then.)
Bjarte: I recently joined the local YMCA because it’s the only gym within anything like reasonable driving distance. When filling out the application online, there was a gender identity field that was marked mandatory. Since I don’t play that game, I went the next day to ask about it in person. My mother went with me, as she was also incensed about it. The girls at the front desk weren’t even aware of the field, since it isn’t on the paper app. (They also were clearly unaware of the significance of the language.) In any case, they said they’d contact their CEO about the issue and have him get back to us. The next day, the CEO called my mother (because she’s the one who knows literally everyone who could make a real stink, not me), and promised at the end of their conversation to get back to her in early July before the next board meeting. He actually got back to her within the week to report that the offending field had been added by a third party without their knowledge. This, of course, is completely consonant with what we know of how the gender brigade goes about their mission, sneaking things in when and where people aren’t looking so that they can rely on the inertia of the status quo to cement what they’ve done.
I submit this as just anecdotal evidence that the bullshit TRAs have done by whining and complaining can sometimes be undone by vocal, unwavering objection.
I spoke to the Greens at a table at a State Fair here in Minnesota, and even though they claimed to approach the environment and social issues with a scientific viewpoint, they were opposed to any sorts of GMOs, insisted that if we all became vegan we would solve global warming, warned that babies were pumped full of vaccines too quickly, etc etc, and they wanted to know my pronouns.
I declined their offer for me to donate to their party.
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Love that story. In the case of the Norwegian Greens, though, I’m afraid blaming outsiders is not an option that’s available to them, since the survey was on their own website (what they actually sent out was an email linking to the survey). Even if somebody else had designed the survey, it’s still their responsibility to know what’s on their f**king homepage, especially before mailing it to all their members. And, of course, their public rhetoric has been entirely consistent with the mission creep.
As we have seen in the case of feminism and gay rights, it’s never about adding trans “rights” to the list of causes. It’s only ever about replacing the other causes with gender ideology, which is how we ended up with “feminists” who don’t even recognize the existence of biological females as a distinct, identifiable group (let alone one that has its own separate issues worth addressing in their own right) and LGBTQ+ activists who actively condemn same sex attraction (as opposed to attraction to pronouns, a piece of paper called a “gender recognition certificate”, an undetectable, indescribable, undefinable inner essence etc.) as bigotry.
*applause*