the stonewall connection

The Green Party of England and Wales has been a fully paid up affiliated member of Stonewall for the past eight years. The Charity stands for lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, questioning and ace people everywhere.

Stonewall has been a key player in providing primary and secondary school teachers with resources for pupils to learn about different gender identities. Part of their equality and diversity “Getting Started” tool kits cover a range of transgender role models.

Following the  launch of the Government’s Transgender Guidance for schools, which is fiercely opposed by Stonewall , here is a reminder of the Green Party’s historical connection with the LGBTIQA+ registered Charity.

Convenor to Stonewall’s Trans Advisory Committee, Aimee Challenor joined the Green Party on 11^th December 2014 and was selected a year later as chair of the LGBTIQA+ Greens “Liberation” Group, now known as a Special Interest Group (SIG).

Proposer of motion C4 “ Recognising Trans Identities “ at the 2016 Autumn Conference with support from 29 members, including co-leader Carla Denyer, Challenor played a key role in shifting the Green Party’s direction away from its main aims and core values towards Identity Politics.

Replicating Stonewall’s subjective mantra, the motion read :

‘There are many Gender Identities that are within, and outside of, the traditional Gender Binary of man and woman,’ adding, ‘The Green Party recognises that Trans Men are Men, Trans Women are Women, and that non-binary identities exist and are valid and real.‘  The motion committed the Green Party to ‘include, and push for further acceptance of transgender and non-binary people within all areas of society.‘

Challenor was elected to serve on the Green Party’s Executive Committee in September 2017, was appointed as the national Spokesperson on LGBTIQA+Greens issues and ran for the post of Deputy Leader in June/July 2018.

He/she/they were then suspended from the Green Party. The harrowing circumstances surrounding that disciplinary action and his/her/their departure from the party have been partially disclosed in the Verita report published on 11th January 2019.

Since 2016, further E and D Stonewall-inspired motions have been proposed by the LGBTIQA+ Greens and key members of the Executive (GPEX) , members of the Regional Council (GPRC), the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) and the Disciplinary Committee (DC).

Approved by Conference, these motions have firmed up the Charity’s grip on party policies, its instruments of governance and the disciplinary process.

As a result, a number of internal reviews conducted by GPRC and members of the DC have skewed further the party’s Code of Conduct towards Stonewall’s bias. Having failed to secure a debate from the Conference floor, the Charity’s definition of Queephobia has recently been quietly inserted within the party’s Framework of Ethics by GPRC. 

This guide is being used by the DC and GPRC to justify suspending members from membership in response to formal complaints. In the main, those have been and are still about allegations of transphobia, as evidenced by the latest suspension of elected members of the Green Party Women’s group.

The vast majority of such complaints over the past seven years have been submitted by a relatively small number of highly motivated identinarian zealots from the LGBTIQA+ Greens and Young Greens.

The adoption of C4 motion ” Recognising Trans Rights ” took place seven years ago. This vote marked the beginning of the weaponization of the party’s disciplinary process by identinarians. It also marked the date when Stonewall’s gender ideological project towards the capture of the Green Party from within was launched.