Mick Hartley

The takeover of the Green Party by trans activists continues apace:

Ani Stafford-Townsend, co-chair of Green Party Women in England and Wales, sent a “late” motion to the party’s conference, proposing that members who sign the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, by the Women’s Declaration International (WDI) be suspended or even expelled from the party. The motion is said to have been presented for the upcoming Green Party Spring Conference, set to happen on March 4-6 2022.

The motion states:

“The Green Party accepts that the ‘Gender Critical’ movements in most UK political parties have been infiltrated by hard-line extremists, who advocate for the wholesale removal of virtually all trans rights as currently enshrined in the Equality Act 2010, and routinely share platforms with those who advocate for extremist positions such as the mass sterilization of trans people. These extremists have also been linked with attacks on women’s abortion rights, misinformation designed to provoke hatred towards trans people, and have benefited from funding from the far-right.”

Attempts to smear gender-critical feminists as funded by the far right are nothing new, but this is obscene. The "mass sterilization of trans people"!? What?? That's despicable. Who on earth has ever advocated that? " The only sterilisation of trans people that's going on is the sterilisation of those poor girls pushed by trans activists into puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy, in the belief that somehow by trying to be men all their troubles will be over.

And "linked with attacks on women’s abortion rights"? Absolute nonsense.

The Women's Declaration International, formerly The Women’s Human Rights Campaign, was created by British women in 2019. It published its Declaration onf Women’s Sex .Based Rights shortly afterwards, authored by legal academic Maureen O’Hara, Dr Sheilla Jeffreys and Dr. Heather Brunkskell Evans. In a statement posted on their website, WDI refutes accusations of the declaration being “anti-trans.”  It says that the motion “misrepresents WDI and the Declaration” and makes a”range of unfounded claims and associations” which are presented without evidence.

The claims made in the Green Party motion are further refuted by WDI: “Believing that women have rights based on their sex that are vital to achieving equality is not a ‘hard-line’ or ‘extremist’ position.”

The organization asks the Green Party to uphold the rights of their members to “freedom of thought and expression,” and wrote that they are “grateful for the support of all Green Party members who have signed the Declaration.”

“We urge the Green Party to confirm that party members are free to support the sex-based rights of women and girls,” stated WDI on their website.

Fat chance of that.

And where is this Ani Stafford-Townsend from? Well, if it's not Brighton it has to be Bristol.