Attention, Greens!

Shahrar Ali @ShahrarAli

EMERGENCY MOTION: PROHIBIT GENDERGP FROM OPERATING IN UK on Grounds of Patient Safety, Lack of Child Informed Consent & Safeguarding Failures. This EM will be voted on at #gpconf plenary! Full text in image & thread. @TheGreenParty members pls support motion. #GenderGP #Tavistock

The Green Party Conference is underway this week with lines drawn between members who believe in science and support women's rights and those who subscribe to the faith of gender identity ideology. No fewer than eight motions up for debate are in some way related to this battle for the soul of the party. 

As well as proposals for self-identification of sex, and parents to choose whether they are a 'mother' or 'father', there is a motion calling for surrogacy services for males who want babies. One of the most contentious motions is the one calling for a chapter on women's rights to be inserted into the party's policies - amazingly there is no such chapter at present. The party's LGBTIQA+ group has been actively campaigning against this.

Currently also hoping to get a hearing, is a motion that would call for offshore clinic GenderGP to be prohitibited from operating in the UK. GenderGP is able to side-step the recent Keira Bell High Court ruling that children should not be prescribed sex hormones without a court order.

One of the most vociferous opponents of the motion to outlaw GenderGP is Kathryn Bristow, who after a year of gender transition was recently elected as co-chair of Green Party Women. The opposition is understandable as Kathryn’s job is advising children on how to access puberty blockers outside the NHS through her employer, GenderGP .

To have a chance of being debated, the emergency motion needs to get the most 'likes' on the Green Party website. Transactivists are now piling in to support rival motions in the hope of bumping this off its current top spot. Green Party members wishing to 'like' can find it here.