If you thought the Scottish Greens couldn’t get any battier, then strap in. Patrick Harvie’s barmy army has ramped up its baffling stance on gender politics and is now expelling party members for declaring that ‘sex is a biological reality’. There really are no words…
The eco-zealots have turned on their own membership after a handful of activist members signed the ‘Scottish Green Declaration for Women’s Sex-Based Rights’ in a protest against the party’s position on gender issues. The unofficial declaration asserts that sex is a ‘biological reality’, women have a right to maintain sex-based protections as in the Equality Act, lesbians are same-sex attracted and ‘women and girls have the right to discuss policies which affect them without being abused, harassed or intimidated’. Long-standing activists and Green party supporters endorsed the document, which received a total of 14 signatures, before they were reported to the party’s conduct and complaints committee. A disciplinary investigation was launched soon after.
A subset of the party which describes itself as the ‘Rainbow Greens’ accused signatories of making the party less safe for trans members, failing to ‘maintain political discipline’ and breaking party rules. And now, staggeringly, a number of party members have been expelled with immediate effect, according to the Holyrood magazine, which reports that half of the letter’s signatories have so far been pushed out of the party. A party document that records Green MSP Ross Greer as a witness has blasted the women’s rights declaration, stating primly that:
Given the serious nature of this complaint and the serious breaches of the Scottish Green Party Code of Conduct, the only appropriate action to be taken on this occasion is that all current members who are signatories on the ‘declaration’ MUST be removed from the party with immediate effect, to ensure the safety of all trans and non-binary members of the Scottish Green Party.
Blimey. So much for inclusivity and tolerance, eh?
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