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Gender Critical Greens vs. transgender people

Gender Critical Greens is a British website and social media account that promotes and documents anti-trans activists who have been members of the Green Party of England and Wales.

The site owner describes it as “a loose collective of people, from various green parties and movements, challenging gender identity ideology.”

Background

The Twitter account affiliated with the project was created in 2016. The first WordPress blog post was on August 15, 2016 and promoted a pamphlet by Rosemary Goude titled “GENDER IS NOT AN IDENTITY, IT IS A TOOL OF PATRIARCHY: A FEMINIST VIEW OF GENDER-IDENTITY POLITICS,” which they began selling on eBay in 2017.

In October 2023, the author migrated from WordPress to its own website.

Suspended and expelled people

The following people have faced disciplinary action by the Green Party for anti-transgender views and activity.

Many were involved in Green Party Women or Green Party Seniors.

  • Shahrar Ali: suspended August 2024; expelled September 2024
  • Jean Bartrum: suspended 2019; subsequently resigned
  • Emma Bateman (Green Party Women Co-Chair): expelled January 2023–November 2023; expelled January 2024 
  • Sarah Bingham (Standing Orders Committee): suspended March 2024–July 2024
  • Freda Davis (Green Seniors Co-Chair): suspended January 2024; resigned June 2024
  • Kefentse Dennis (Green Party Executive Committee E&D Co-ordinator): suspended November 2024; expelled February 2025
  • Pallavi Devulapalli (Spokesperson for Health, Social Care & Public Health): suspended September 2024
  • Jude English (Green Party Women Co-Chair): suspended March 2024
  • Deborah Fink: suspended July 2020–May 2021; suspended October 2021–December 2023; expelled August 2024
  • Dawn Furness (Green Party Women Co-Chair): expelled 2021–2023
  • Zoe Hatch (Green Party Women Co-Chair): suspended October 2023–March 2024; expelled March 2024
  • Andy Healy: suspended 2019; later expelled
  • Imogen Makepeace (Disciplinary Committee): suspended April 2024; immediately resigned
  • Robbie Spence (Policy Development Committee & Disciplinary Committee): suspended February 2021–April 2023; suspended March 2024–June 2024; expelled April 2024 (not notified until July)
  • Alison Teal (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate) : suspended October 2022; resigned June 2024
  • Eric Walker (Green Seniors Membership Secretary): suspended January 2024; expelled April 2025
  • Lucy Watson (Green Party Women committee member): suspended December 2023
  • Nicola Watson (Green Seniors Co-Chair): suspended January 2024
  • Nathan Williams: expelled March 2024
  • [redcated] (Green Party Executive Committee Chair): suspended December 2023

GCG’s recommended links

  • Transgender Trend (transgendertrend.com) by Stephanie Davies-Arai
  • Sex and Gender: A Beginners Guide (sexandgenderintro.com) by Rebecca Reilly-Cooper
  • Youth Trans Critical Professionals (youthtranscriticalprofessionals.org) by Lisa Marchiano
  • Transcritical (transcritical.wordpress.com)
  • 4th Wave Now (4thwavenow.com) by Denise Caignon
  • Purple Sage (purplesagefem.wordpress.com)
  • The New Backlash (thenewbacklash.blogspot.co.uk)
  • Sister Outrider (sisteroutrider.wordpress.com) by Claire Heuchan
  • Fair Play For Women (fairplayforwomen.com)
  • Feminist Current (feministcurrent.com) by Meghan Murphy
  • The Fifth Column News (thefifthcolumnnews.com) Feminist Faction [archive]
  • Renee JG (reneejg.net)
  • Not The News In Briefs (notthenewsinbriefs.wordpress.com) by Helen Saxby
  • Miranda Yardley (mirandayardley.com)

Selected publications

“gendercriticalgreens” (August 15, 2016). GENDER IS NOT AN IDENTITY, IT IS A TOOL OF PATRIARCHY: A FEMINIST VIEW OF GENDER-IDENTITY POLITICS Rosemary Goude pamphlet https://ebay.io/m/Rrfo1H

Resources

Gender Critical Greens (gcgreens.uk)

WordPress (wordpress.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

eBay (ebay.co.uk)