To the Green party, whose membership will be called on to vote for their next leader this summer. Currently the party operates a curious policy whereby its next leaders or deputies, if job-sharing, must be of different genders – with Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer currently occupying the top job, having been elected in 2021. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling – which backed the biological definition of a woman – Mr S was rather curious about how exactly the judgment would impact the eco-activists. The short answer is, er, it won’t.
The environmentalists are determined to ignore the judgment from the highest court in the land, it seems.
The environmentalists are determined to ignore the judgment from the highest court in the land, it seems. Despite justices unanimously concluding that ‘women’ in the Equality Act referred to biological sex, the Greens will not change their constitution – which states that while job-sharing leaders must be ‘two individuals of a different gender’, ‘gender is self-determined’. The eco-zealots at the environmentalist HQ insisted to Steerpike that: ‘No, the party doesn’t support the Supreme Court judgment.’ They said it was not the Green party’s position that trans women aren’t women – and their constitution continues to note that ‘gender is self-determined’. How very interesting…
The revelation comes after Denyer announced on Thursday morning she was stepping down from the top job to focus her energies on her parliamentary constituency duties in Bristol Central – just days after her deputy Zack Polanski launched a leadership bid of his own. Despite their constitution going to such lengths to specify the party’s chosen leaders must be of two different genders, it would appear the Greens’s refusal to get behind the Supreme Court ruling effectively makes that null and void. Oh, the irony…
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