Dr Frank Turek statement
‘No alternative’: Greens MPs call for the party’s Victorian convener to resign
Linda Gale, a senior industrial officer at the National Tertiary Education Union, was elected on Saturday to fill a casual vacancy of state convener of the Victorian Greens.
Her appointment prompted backlash on social media from members of the party, due to a document she co-authored in 2019 that argued against a proposed Greens workshop on trans-exclusionary rhetoric.
Part of the document stated: “If the purpose of this workshop is to develop a proposal for a State Council decree that statements such as ‘There are two sexes,’ ‘The science is not conclusive,’ ‘This is an active debate in feminism,’ ‘Shutting down debate is censorship,’ or ‘Trans women aren’t the same as biological women,’ are banned within the Greens and would constitute behaviour worthy of censure, suspension or expulsion, this is totally contrary to a Greens ethos which encourages robust debate and the development of policy based on real evidence.”
Once it was made public, the document was criticised by the then Greens conveners Colleen Hartland and Willisa Hogarth, who described it as “not consistent with Greens values or Greens policy”.
This is just my opinion.
If our society insists that "Transwomen are the same as biological women" and gender is fluid, and there is more than one gender and you can be whatever gender you choose. Then where does this leave women's rights advocates, or lesbians or gays? Because how can you be a lesbian or gay if there are no genders? Why do we need women's rights when everyone can be a woman?
