29, 🏳️⚧️, 🏳️🌈 & ♾️
Green Party Councillor in Gateshead.
Co-Chair, @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk
Co-Chair, @neyounggreens.bsky.social
Cllr Melissa Harker
Loading...
Nobody deserves to have their car firebombed for putting their head above the parapet and getting stuck in with activism in their communities.
The point of democracy is that we can disagree, but we don't settle disagreements with arson or violence, but at the ballot box, or in political chambers.
Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @rachelmillward.bsky.social responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.
There is something profoundly cruel about the timing of such a statement being made and/or released. Of course, this is something that we, as trans people, probably now expect when we enter awareness periods, like Trans Day of Remembrance or Pride month, and it's all kinds of messed up.
Video
Segregation? Thoughts and prayers.
Wonder if this would be the party line taken during the times of the Civil Rights movement.
It irks me so much when people try to say Labour are progressive, because they're not. No progressive party would throw trans people to the wolves. I'd say it's impressive how quick they were to do that if I didn't have to deal with the aftermath.
Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.
Cllr Melissa Harker
The Green Party of England & Wales
Cllr Melissa Harker
Here we are: forced detransition of trans youth. They know the harms that this will cause to trans teens and their families, and they just don't care.
This country and this government is flagrantly indifferent to the mental and physical wellbeing of transgender youth.
Earlier this evening I visited the ONE Centre in Gateshead to speak to OUT North East and also did some t-shirt making with Gateshead Libraries.
We are writing to our leadership and elected representatives to express our utmost disappointment following the lack of Green voices during the Parliamentary debate on the Code of Practice, and we will be asking for urgent clarification on why this was the case.
I would suggest that those who support trans inclusion in the WI (presently closed to new trans members) and guides (where trans guides are due to be excluded in September) have an urgent discussion with the relevant organisations.
