So wonderful to see sex work being decriminalised in Victoria. Suck-on-it, @KPMaltzahn and your lil underling @ninavallins. Get used to losing. You should be already though, right?
I don’t like re-tweeting obscenity but when well-known figures on the Left continually use it in place of debate, people should know. The restoration of civil discourse is something we all need to work on if we want to get better public policy.
Do @VictorianGreens not understand that the TERF/SWERF squad and their relentless bullying lost them the easily winnable seat of Richmond? Denounce it utterly and in no uncertain terms before you lose more federal slots. @SamanthaRatnam@RichardDiNatale@janet_rice
While we're on the subject- remember this video from IWD of Vic Greens members harassing a trans woman? Nina Vallins egging it on in background at about 3:28. CW transphobia https://t.co/zXIsBTBv2m @ActualSexWorker @Greens4SexWork@VictorianGreens@janet_rice@RichardDiNatale
@Greens4SexWork@marrowing@VictorianGreens@TimRRead@SamanthaRatnam Would love some clarification around this. I want to know that the Greens will support trans people and sex workers. I’m a lesbian and a feminist and these attitudes do not represent me or anyone I know. This will lose votes.
Regarding some online discussion we're seeing,we want to make it VERY clear that all current office bearers in Victorian Greens Women's Network are 100% behind trans women & sex workers & are doing our best to foster safe spaces, as all leftist parties should for minority groups.
If you are a feminist, support the rights of trans people to be free from discrimination and have ever voted for the Greens, now is the time to let the party know in every way you can that this bigotry is unacceptable.
While @janet_rice, the party's passionate spokesperson on LGBTQI+ rights, is up for re-election to the Senate, trans people in the party are fighting for existence and begging not to be misgendered by the highest levels of their leadership.
Members with a wide range of opinions frequently describe Nina Vallins as ‘evil’ ‘psychotic’ ‘manipulative’ ‘obsessive’. The same Vallins who @crikey_news reported allegedly assaulted a protester at a Greens event.
Let’s be clear these TERFs want to create a party where sex workers and trans people are harassed, silenced, bullied and misgendered until they give up. All in service of their self-serving out of date ideology.
The authors argue that feminists as a group will leave the party in exodus if trans people’s rights are affirmed and they are protected from hate speech from TERFs .
The document (see screenshot above) argues against the right of trans people to affirm their gender and asks that transphobia be enshrined as necessary for debate.