The declaration has been formally adopted. This outcome reflects the persistent commitment of everyone who identified the necessity of protecting the sex based rights of women and girls. We will now turn our focus toward ensuring these principles remain central to our ongoing political work.
November 27, 2022
Final supporters
GREEN FEMINISTS WOMEN AND GIRLS DECLARATION
We are the Green Feminists Women and Girls’ Declaration Working Group.
In the Core Values of the Green Party of England and Wales it is stated that “A system based on inequality and exploitation is threatening the future of the planet on which we depend “, indeed The Green Party and the wider green movement has always understood the link between environmental issues and social justice, that changing climate affects everyone, but that it is the world’s poorest and those in vulnerable situations, especially women and girls, who bear the brunt of environmental, economic and social shocks (UN Women).
Our aims are to ensure that Green Party candidates are elected AND to support women's and girl’s sex based rights and protections.
We sign this petition in a personal capacity and we invite all who support the declaration set out below to sign here too.
HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SIGNED SO FAR, SO QUICKLY - PLEASE SHARE THE PETITION SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE OUR VOICES ARE HEARD!
You can find Green Feminists here: https://www.facebook.com/GreenFeminists
Our petition is below:
We, the undersigned, declare that:
1. women and girls are subject to discrimination and oppression on the basis of their sex, and that sex is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act (2010)
2. language is vital in identifying and calling out this oppression, and women and girls must also retain the right to use the language which specifically refers to the anatomy of their biological sex for the purposes of dignity, safety and health.
3. women and girls have the right to maintain their sex-based protections as set out in the Equality Act (2010) including female-only spaces such as changing rooms, hospital wards, sanitary and sleeping accommodation, refuges, hostels and prisons, and that women have the right to refuse consent to males in these female-only spaces or males delivering intimate services to females such as washing, dressing or counselling.
4. women and girls have the right to: protection against any discrimination, freedom of belief, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly (Articles 7,18, 19 and 20 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights).
5. women and girls have the right to organise themselves, as a sex, across a range of cultural, leisure, sporting, educational and political activities.
6. women and girls have the right to discuss policies which affect them, without being abused, harassed or intimidated, and we condemn all attempts to undermine or limit the rights of women to self-organise, and we call on the Green Party and the wider green movement to actively support these essential freedoms.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
October 28, 2022
April 25, 2020
The momentum behind this declaration reflects a deep and growing consensus on the importance of protecting the sex based rights of women and girls. It is encouraging to see how many people recognize that true environmental justice requires us to address these fundamental inequities.
Reached 100 supporters
November 21, 2019
219 Comments
The ending of discrimination against trans people should not result in a lessening of women’s protections nor abuse of those defending them. This debate must be conducted patiently and compassionately by all sides, informed by a clear understanding of where oppressions overlap or are distinct.
I've been happy with my MP Caroline Lucas's willingness to have conversations about this issue, but disappointed with the Green Party nationally on this matter. I will be voting for Caroline, but want more clarity from the Green Party about its commitments to women and girls.
I cancelled my membership of the Scottish Greens after being told that holding the views expressed in this petition made me unwelcome in the party; I cannot vote Green again until the official party position admits the debate we so urgently need.
I was active in the Green Party LGB group in the 90s, and I presented as the opposite sex as a child but it seems the leaders who have no apparent lived experience of these issues think my belief that sex matters makes me a bigot.
I’m a former Green Parliamentary candidate. I hope to stand again - and am worried about being denounced as ‘transphobic’. (Ludicrous.) The Green Party is based upon the necessity of accepting ecological reality. So can we please accept biological reality...
So how does this declaration square with the Green Party published policies on trans rights ?
Trans people need protection and women, adult human females, also do. Let's balance in a way which is fair to women, and focus on ending physical or verbal/written abuse of anyone, anywhere.
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The declaration has been formally adopted. This outcome reflects the persistent commitment of everyone who identified the necessity of protecting the sex based rights of women and girls. We will now turn our focus toward ensuring these principles remain central to our ongoing political work.
November 27, 2022
Final supporters
GREEN FEMINISTS WOMEN AND GIRLS DECLARATION
We are the Green Feminists Women and Girls’ Declaration Working Group.
In the Core Values of the Green Party of England and Wales it is stated that “A system based on inequality and exploitation is threatening the future of the planet on which we depend “, indeed The Green Party and the wider green movement has always understood the link between environmental issues and social justice, that changing climate affects everyone, but that it is the world’s poorest and those in vulnerable situations, especially women and girls, who bear the brunt of environmental, economic and social shocks (UN Women).
Our aims are to ensure that Green Party candidates are elected AND to support women's and girl’s sex based rights and protections.
We sign this petition in a personal capacity and we invite all who support the declaration set out below to sign here too.
HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SIGNED SO FAR, SO QUICKLY - PLEASE SHARE THE PETITION SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE OUR VOICES ARE HEARD!
You can find Green Feminists here: https://www.facebook.com/GreenFeminists
Our petition is below:
We, the undersigned, declare that:
1. women and girls are subject to discrimination and oppression on the basis of their sex, and that sex is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act (2010)
2. language is vital in identifying and calling out this oppression, and women and girls must also retain the right to use the language which specifically refers to the anatomy of their biological sex for the purposes of dignity, safety and health.
3. women and girls have the right to maintain their sex-based protections as set out in the Equality Act (2010) including female-only spaces such as changing rooms, hospital wards, sanitary and sleeping accommodation, refuges, hostels and prisons, and that women have the right to refuse consent to males in these female-only spaces or males delivering intimate services to females such as washing, dressing or counselling.
4. women and girls have the right to: protection against any discrimination, freedom of belief, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly (Articles 7,18, 19 and 20 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights).
5. women and girls have the right to organise themselves, as a sex, across a range of cultural, leisure, sporting, educational and political activities.
6. women and girls have the right to discuss policies which affect them, without being abused, harassed or intimidated, and we condemn all attempts to undermine or limit the rights of women to self-organise, and we call on the Green Party and the wider green movement to actively support these essential freedoms.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
October 28, 2022
April 25, 2020
The momentum behind this declaration reflects a deep and growing consensus on the importance of protecting the sex based rights of women and girls. It is encouraging to see how many people recognize that true environmental justice requires us to address these fundamental inequities.
Reached 100 supporters
November 21, 2019
219 Comments
Will not vote for a party which refuses to acknowledge my sex. I believe in climate change because of science. I believe sex exists due to evolution. If you want to deny evolution you don't get my vote
The ending of discrimination against trans people should not result in a lessening of women’s protections nor abuse of those defending them. This debate must be conducted patiently and compassionately by all sides, informed by a clear understanding of where oppressions overlap or are distinct.
I've been happy with my MP Caroline Lucas's willingness to have conversations about this issue, but disappointed with the Green Party nationally on this matter. I will be voting for Caroline, but want more clarity from the Green Party about its commitments to women and girls.
I cancelled my membership of the Scottish Greens after being told that holding the views expressed in this petition made me unwelcome in the party; I cannot vote Green again until the official party position admits the debate we so urgently need.
I was active in the Green Party LGB group in the 90s, and I presented as the opposite sex as a child but it seems the leaders who have no apparent lived experience of these issues think my belief that sex matters makes me a bigot.
I’m a former Green Parliamentary candidate. I hope to stand again - and am worried about being denounced as ‘transphobic’. (Ludicrous.) The Green Party is based upon the necessity of accepting ecological reality. So can we please accept biological reality...
So how does this declaration square with the Green Party published policies on trans rights ?
Trans people need protection and women, adult human females, also do. Let's balance in a way which is fair to women, and focus on ending physical or verbal/written abuse of anyone, anywhere.
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Will not vote for a party which refuses to acknowledge my sex. I believe in climate change because of science. I believe sex exists due to evolution. If you want to deny evolution you don't get my vote