Mick Hartley

The Greens – again. The clown show continues. From the Telegraph:

A Green councillor who compared gender-critical authors to Holocaust deniers has been forced to study the Equality Act.

Helen Elliott-Boult, a Green councillor for Stroud district council (SDC), justified the cancellation of an event featuring two authors critical of transgender ideology, set to take place at Stroud Brewery in the Cotswolds.

The event was cancelled because of fears for “the safety of members of our trans community”.

Council officers have mandated that Ms Elliott-Boult attend training, reinforcing that gender-critical views are protected by law in the UK.

Ms Elliott-Boult justified the cancellation of the speaking event in the interest of “inclusion”, and compared de-platforming the gender-ideology sceptics to cancelling a Holocaust denier.

There’s history here.

Stroud has become an unexpected battleground for debates over gender ideology in recent years. In 2025, local police treated graffiti that stated “men can’t be women” as a hate crime.

Gloucestershire Constabulary launched an investigation into slogans daubed around Stroud ahead of the town’s annual Pride march, including the phrases “you can’t change sex”, “being female is not a costume”, and “trans women are men”.

Police said the graffiti was “targeted towards transgender people” and the incident was being treated as a “hate crime”.

Ms Elliott-Boult responded in a statement, saying: “The complaint was resolved under the informal resolution provisions. I will be completing the same SDC councillor training as all SDC councillors. At no point did I make negative comments about gender-critical views.”

Apart from comparing them to Holocaust denial. Though perhaps, in Green Party circles nowadays, Holocaust denial is considered favourably. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me.