What is “Green” about banning and punishing women?

Green Party faces gender-critical group lawsuit over trans ‘witch-hunt’

The Green Party has been accused of carrying out a “witch-hunt” against people with gender-critical views after it allegedly refused to allow campaigners a stall at party conference.

Lawyers for Green Women’s Declaration claim the decision was “a deliberate and unlawful attempt to prevent women from expressing gender-critical views”.

Well what else would it be? That’s not a claim, it’s a definition.

The gender-critical group also plans to sue over the party’s definition of “queerphobia”, which rules it is transphobic to suggest trans women are “not real women”. In a pre-action letter sent last week, the group claimed the definition “precisely encapsulates a gender-critical view”.

Confusion and conflation always. Accurate definition is not phobia. There’s nothing “phobic” about saying men are not women. For that matter there’s nothing affectionate about saying men are women. It’s just a lie or a mistake; it needn’t involve any emotion at all. We may sound exasperated when we say it, but that’s because it’s so basic and obvious and we shouldn’t have to keep repeating it.

Jude English, 60, a director of the group, told The Times: “The way the Green Party has been acting is akin to a witch-hunt, purging people with gender-critical views. We were middle-aged ladies with leaflets who wanted to go inside the conference last year and talk about these issues. The cancellation of our stall was simply the party’s leadership saying, ‘We can’t allow these women’s voices inside [the leader Zack Polanski’s] big conference.’

There’s always some reason to push women’s voices out the door.