I was co chair of Green Seniors with Nicola Watson.

We had a newsletter and official emails, but we also had a private email group where we began to discuss the block on debating the effect on women’s sex based rights of men choosing to self ID as women and them being placed in women’s prisons and young women taking puberty blockers, which can be detrimental to their future well being.
An anonymous complaint was made that collected a lot of this private conversation and complained about it as shocking and transphobic.
The complaint was heard on Jan 3rd 2024, but although a decision was made to suspend us, we were only informed of it on Jan 15th the day of our AGM.
“Nobody asked us to defend our position. The anonymous complainant made out this was public discussion, which was not true. “
Nicola and I as moderators were also criticised for allowing Eric Walker to ask questions about who made decisions on GPRC and the complainant didn’t know we had asked Eric not to post his enquiries there. We had no opportunity to say this.
Since then GPRC have met twice and continued the suspension with no reference to our explanations.
As this was preventing me from active campaigning I resigned to support Alison Teal in Sheffield.
The peculiar “Queerphobia” document was cited in our suspension although it was rejected at the last Conference. GPRC have pushed it in without following the proper procedure.
It discriminates illegally against anyone who believes sex matters.
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