Green gender
The Australian Greens’ new leader, Larissa Waters, is resisting calls to intervene in the widening row over the minority party’s embrace of transgender rights and halt a purge of members who don’t toe the line.
The expulsion of Greens co-founder Drew Hutton has brought to a dramatic head tensions around the alleged hounding of those who question the party’s pro-trans platform.
It’s not all that alleged when we can see it happening in real time.
Mr Hutton said upwards of 30 former Greens members had reached out to him about being expelled for challenging the party’s position on gender. Most were women. Many more quit after being subjected to harassment for voicing reservations about trans people accessing normally segregated spaces such as public and school toilets, changing rooms or in sports where transitioning boys competed against girls.
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Cheryl Hercus, 70, who proudly identifies as a lesbian woman, said she was forced out of the Victorian Greens after posting links to articles that were critical of gender identity theory on social media. She resigned her membership rather than contest the complaints made against her.
“We were basically painted as being fundamentally racist if we believed that biological reality was reality,” she said. “It just became obvious to me that the whole of the party had been captured by this ideology and to try and fight it from within was just huge.”
Sounds all too familiar.

You know, if I worked for, say, an oil company, and I wanted to weaken green parties all over the world by making them tear themselves apart with infighting, and I also wanted to discredit them by showing them up as untrustworthy and unscientific, fools and liars who will glom onto any half-baked fashionable nonsense on stilts…I’m not sure if I could make a better job of it than the Gender Greens.
Seriously.
Besides, what on Earth is environmentally friendly about the pollution caused by men and women using cross-sex hormones?
I’ll bet a kidney* that Cheryl Hercus has never *ever* said that she identifies as a lesbian woman. I’ll bet that she says that she is lesbian, and is a woman.
*Not my own, of course. That’d be mad. I’ll pick one up from Tesco.