Green Party cracking up over transsexual/transgender issues?

Specifically, what has brought things to a boiling point is what constitutes "medical care" for minor children with gender dysphoria. But the kick-starter was the Georgia Green Party's approval of "Declaration on the Sex Based Rights of Women." The actual declaration calls for reaffirming women sex workers' rights as based on sex not gender. I agree!

Transgender or transsexual (yes, that word) advocates seem to be in a huge furor over that. They seem to be in a secondary furor because "detransitioning" is mentioned in one linked document (and maybe others), and its explicitly tied to treatment for gender-dysphoric minor children.

And now, questioning rushes to treatment is being reframed as "denying medical care."

Tosh.

I stand with the Mayo Clinic, which notes that puberty blocking medications should only be used for children who:

• Show a long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria.
• Have gender dysphoria that began or worsened at the start of puberty.

Note that the first stipulation has an AND, not an OR. The dysphoria must be BOTH long-lasting and intense. Note also the second stipulation. Gender dysphoria that starts after puberty should NOT be treated with these medications. And these bullet points, plus two others, including one that says a child who is a candidate for such medications should at the same time be addressing any "psychological, medical or social problems" that could interfere with such treatment.

I'm ending the medical talk there for the sake of this piece. I want to focus on the politics. (But, I have another piece in the hopper.)

The Lavender Caucus wants the Georgia GP expelled, even though this clearly violated the "decentralization" key plank of the party. It's clear that many of the allies they're whipping up haven't even read the Georgia GP statement.

I stand AGAINST certain Greens like Brian Setzler, Noah Martin, and the hate-speeching Mike Gamms (calling people who disagree with him "genocidal" does approach that, IMO), along with Amergin Ó Kai and Aric Hopkins among newer ones, and it's from a public FB group, so no anonymity busting) who claim that trans activists aren't forcing or pushing anything.

In addition, per the Georgia Green Party's response to Dario Hunter's issuing a call for dialogue between the party and the caucus, among other things, it notes these comments and more. It also notes that Hunter was at the Georgia GP state convention and sat silent while the amendment up top was adopted.

I also wonder if Hunter saw this as a campaign wedge issue. And, if he did, if Howie Hawkins felt compelled to respond. The Greens as Just.Another.Political.Party™? I am shocked there are politics going on in this third party.

Given what I said above about gender vs. sex, the detransitioning issue, to the degree transgender has been fused with transsexual, is not the same as gay or lesbian detransgendering and therefore is NOT "anti-trans." Certainly, watchful waiting for minor children is not "anti-trans."

These crude attempts at framing are lies.

And, since I did tweet something, I got a response from Lavender Greens:

Transgender is the set and Transsexual is a sub-set.    Transgender is an umbrella term to cover a wide range of people within the trans community whereas transsexual people are a specific group.

thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

— Lavender Greens 🌻 (@LavenderGreens) March 1, 2020

Thanks for not being too snarky with that last line. "Thanks" also for ignoring the distinction I pointed out in my tweet to which you were responding:

A big brouhaha within the Green Party over a declaration adopted by Georgia GP has made partly me rethink snarking on "TERFs" & going back to issue of "gender" vs "sex."
I'm about ready to stop using the word "transgender" & go back to "transsexual."
Don't like it? Your problem.

— Super Dooper for #SuperTuesday 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) March 1, 2020

I'm more and more inclined to be less and less charitable on this issue. While this was a politer reframing than I met in the GP Facebook group, I still see it as an attempt to reframe.

Speaking of? There used to exist a private, semi-official GP issues and discussion Facebook group. As of March 20, it was "archived," apparently to cut off discussion on this issue.

Sooo ...

If you're not Dahlia Blackthorn, AND you have more enlightened stances on puberty blockers, then you need to educate her, as I indicated back without naming names.

I know who you are, or one of you, in the Green Party, from Facebook. That person, at least, conflates transgender and transsexual and appears to do so willingly, among other issues.

— I'll Be Biden Time in South Carolina primary 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) March 1, 2020

If you are her, or someone like her? Then you need to either educate yourself, or to undo any "re-education" you've received on this issue.

Related? Starlene Rankin, a moderator for the GP Facebook group, has publicly said she wants Howie to pick Dahlia as his Veep. (Thank doorknob that didn't happen.)

I also support the Georgia Green Party and outsiders for responding to Lavender Greens' call for expulsion with a call, and petition, for dialogue instead. I have signed it.

And, I also don't like Dario Hunter appearing to try to politicize the issue. (Nor do I totally like Howie Hawkins trying to pull what looks like Jill Stein-style fence straddling.)

Not everybody who has signed agrees with the party's position. They do, though, all agree, that the Lavender Caucus (with the tacit support of Hunter, the quietude of Hawkins, and doorknob knows what from national leadership) should actually engage in dialogue.

So far, that has not been the case. The LC has engaged in further attacks. Hunter has continued to try to politicize the issue. Hawkins has made one comment, then faded back away.

A member of the LC was invited to the Dialogue Not Expulsion Group. He left, and dropped this turd-bomb blog post, even AFTER the LC attacked DNC as a hate group, and didn't call it out for that. So long, Allan; with that, I don't think you'll be that missed by a significant chunk of DNE.

And, for both Greens and non-Greens? The amount of threats of violence, and attempts at intimidation. on this issue that it seems many trans activists engage in, and others support, at least tacitly, has just really come to light for me. I consider it disgusting. And it needs to be repudiated. Period.