Women banned
The Green Party doesn’t want women defending women’s rights.
Women’s rights campaigners have claimed they are victims of discrimination after being banned from the Green Party conference.
Invidious discrimination, they mean.
The Green Women’s Declaration (GWD), a group advocating for sex-based rights for women, were told two days before the party’s conference that their stall booking was cancelled and they would not be allowed to recruit members. The group said the move “undermines the rights of women to advocate for single-sex spaces, services, and sports — rights that are protected under UK law”.
Sometimes protected. Other times, as we see, not protected.
The ban is the latest argument between those in the party who believe in sex-based rights and those who have made transgender rights a priority.
Those in the party who believe in women’s rights and those who believe that men are entitled to idennify as women and help themselves to women’s rights.
Zack Polanski, the new Green Party leader, has repeatedly spoken about his support for transgender people. He said this week that the party’s policy would remain that transgender people should be able to self-identify as whatever gender they wish.
But the issue isn’t really ability to self-idennify or not, the issue is forcing everyone else to endorse the self-idennifying. The issue is what follows from the self-idennifying. Nobody cares what other people think they are inside their heads; it’s when they act on it that things can get tricky.
In a letter seen by The Times, Jon Nott, the Greens’ chairman, said the party had “considered feedback from concerned members about the possibility of GWD attending, who described the hostile and demeaning encounters they have had with GWD in the past (including at previous conference)”.
He said: “They also noted the confrontational and derogatory ways in which some of GWD’s leaders and supporters have campaigned on issues of sex and gender identity, including online.
“The view taken is that there is a real likelihood that GWD would behave in a similar way at conference this year, and that in any event their presence would deter other members from attending and so would inhibit our ability to run an effective, inclusive event.”
And this is all entirely the fault of women. The men who claim to be women and shove women aside and tell women to get out are not at all a deterrent to other members, it’s only the women who object to being shoved aside who are the problem. It’s not the men in lipstick who deter others from attending, it’s those bitches who deter. It’s those bitchy mean demanding women who inhibit the Green Party’s ability to run an inclusive event, so kick them the fuck out, ok? Women are the problem no matter what; men who pretend to be women are their victims. That’s the rule.
A party spokesman said: “The Green Party will always offer a safe and welcoming space. The party decided that GWD’s presence at the conference would risk undermining that commitment and deter members from attending.”
Safe and welcoming for men, that is. Not for women. God no. Who cares about women? They’re a tiny minority, they’re pests, nobody cares about them. Welcome to our safe and welcoming space.
Kicking women out = running an inclusive event
Do they know what “inclusive” means? Or “safe” and “welcoming”? Do they even listen to what they are saying?
Of course they do.
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
They control the language; we are the ones who are expected to learn the rules of Newspeak.
Well you see it’s a question of application. Incloosivitee applies to trans people, especially trans women. It does not apply to women. Trans women matter; women do not matter. It’s easy once you get the hang of it.
But it’s not easy! There are so many other words they expect us to redefine, or apply selectively, inconsistently, or unidirectionally. And you have to guess, which can get you into a whole world of trouble.
I’d bet that these are some of those redefined, selective, inconsistent, and unidirectional words right here:
“hostile”
“demeaning”
“confrontational”
“derogatory”
And of course
“No”
Gendering is HARD!
Sure, and alongside your “gender” you can have as many chakras as you can cram into your body, and, to top it all off, whatever colour aura you’d like*. But the law specifies sex, and that you can’t change, or “identify” “out” of.
*Unfortunately, as your astrological sign is tied to your date of birth, you’re stuck with your star sign. Further unfortunately, as the “traditional” zodiacal signs are now out of sync with the dates currently ascribed to them, your star-sign assigned at birth is no longer correct. This means that the astrological stereotypes thrown around so casually by society at large are ascribed incorrectly! But then, if you decide to identify yourself through some alternate, non-Western astrology that might bypass some of these difficulties, but that would be cultural appropriation! Never mind that the zodiacal constellations aren’t real entities, and that all those stars which look like they’re beside each other, are at vastly different distances from each other, such that a given star’s nearest stellar neighbour is likely going to be in a different constellation altogether, rather that the one just a few egrees “next” to it from our Earth-bound vantage point. The Sun itself, seen from a great enough distance, becomes a star “in” whatever constellation you’d like it to be in, if you choose the right direction of travel. At the same time, all those other constellations disappear as your vantage point shifts
So if you’re putting all your chips on astrology, you’re fucked in any case.
Examples, please. So we can determine if these behaviors were actually confrontational and derogatory, or if they are just asserting women’s rights and calling men men.
My guess is it’s the latter. But even if it’s the former, they would have to be really out of line to come within shouting distance of how confrontational and derogatory trans activists have been.