https://bsky.app/profile/leftiestats.bsky.social/post/3muwxjieu7k2j
Sorry only news sources reporting this is the Daily Mail and Telegraph, not worth linking to their thoughts on trans women.
Of note is that Eleanora was elected to the spot and backed by ‘Greens for Palestine’ . 2 Weeks later she is out on transphobic grounds and seems to have her suspension leaked to the Daily Mail potentially by someone in the Greens.
Xitter conversation between Greens Party Council and Eleanora
Greens Party Council member Kai Taylor has put the Greens party into disrepute.
Green is the color of sickness
Okay… but this person was elected, right…? Does the GPC feel that the people who did the electing were somehow misled?
This just seems like a real self-mutilation in all respects. The GPC have pissed off everyone that there is to piss off.
There are several other trans members on the GPC… she didn’t get suspended for being trans, she got suspended for breaking party rules on conduct by committee members.
This is from the (trans) member whose bluesky post is elsewhere in the thread (Kat Bristow) taken from the reddit post I linked
"TheKatBristow
There’s other trans women currently on GPC, including the other co-chair of LGBTIQA+ Greens, and no action has been taken against any other trans person on GPC.
So we can safely assume that Eleonora’s suspension is unrelated to her being trans."
So we can safely assume that Eleonora’s suspension is unrelated to her being trans.”
Or we can assume they don’t have any support/angles to go after other trans women yet. It seems pretty evident that strong elements of transphobia are at play in this decision via Kai Taylor’s involvement.
I can’t believe anyone believes what the right wing media write about a left wing party, but be that as it may, Eleanora wasn’t suspended because she was trans, she was suspended because she made comments on social media likely to bring the Greens into disrepute while holding an official post (ordinary members can say what they like, representatives of the party can’t). The party is investigating those comments to see what disciplinary action should be taken and her role is suspended while that happens.
The comments in question were blatantly anti-semitic (as opposed to anti-zionist which I have no problem with) in my opinion, and I doubt she’ll be allowed to retain the post. I’m sure everyone on here understand the difference ? The Daily Mail certainly doesn’t though.
This reddit thread has more details from Greens party members
https://www.reddit.com/r/UKGreens/comments/1w7g74w/stats_4_lefties_suspended_according_to_the_daily/
No one here believes the right wing media, we believe the he victim who is the one in OPs post where they specifically say they are not linking to the right wing sources.
Once again, precisely zero hard evidence
Zero hard evidence on either side, though. She says she was suspended due to transphobia but provides no evidence that this was the case. There are plenty of Green trans councillors that haven’t been suspended, so what’s going on?
I would not be inclined to pick sides here until the truth actually comes out.
Agreed
What evidence are you looking for ? I’ve stated the Greens have made no formal statement on it - because that’s the process when someone is suspended and their conduct is being reviewed - unlike the Mail I don’t just make shit up to make the readers happy
if the Greens aren’t transphobic, then why did they elect a transphobe for GPRC rep? also, it’s a little suspicious you’re ignoring that despite the screenshots being posted in this thread before you commented.
What did she say
And the anti-semitism was what? Her support for Iran against the genocidal US and Israel?
You really should have to qualify smears like this without just vague posting about it. Let others see what you think was anti-semitic and let them judge for themselves.
Fucking hell. I need TERF Island to burn already. Fuck this transphobic piece of shit party.
Here’s a Bluesky thread by another trans Green party memeber that I think is worth considering.
Please take a look at Kai Taylor, the Greens Party Council member in these discussions.
He is abusing the definition of transphobia to claim Gender Critical ideology is not transphobia. GC also known as TERF is 100% transphobia.
That’s not enough?
He is endorsed by MumsNet, one of the most prominent TERF hubs and trans hate communities.
Oh and don’t forget
Who are Green Women’s Declaration? They’re the group of transphobes who the Good Law Project is currently defending the Greens party from as of a week ago because they were denied an application to hold a stall at th e Green conference in 2025 because it was felt they made trans members unsafe.
Gender “critics” aren’t the same as TERFs, almost none of them are radical feminists. They’re liberal feminists at best, and most of them aren’t any kind of feminist.
TERFs aren’t feminist either.
Gender Critical is simply the term TERFs use to refer to themselves, even JK Rowling calls herself a GC. It’s the “Pro-Life” to the “Pro-Choice” of abortion, a soft sounding name to help with public perception.
I think you misunderstand me: Radical Feminism is the belief that patriarchal modes of government are responsible for women’s oppression and must be overthrown through revolution. It doesn’t inherently exclude trans people, but some radical feminists do, leading to them being labelled TERFs, with non-transphobic radical feminists still just being called radical feminists. Regardless of whether you want to count them among feminists, a prerequisite of being a Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist is that you are a Radical Feminist of some form first.
JK Rowling, Graham Lineham, and the vast majority of the GC crowd are not radicals. They do not believe there is anything wrong with our current modes of government. They do not believe in revolution. They are not Radicals Feminists, so can’t be Trans Exclusive Radical Feminists. They are just bog standard transphobes. GC is the term transphobes use to refer to themselves, it’s not limited to TERFs.This isn’t the 80s, the language has evolved. TERF is a catch-all for the ‘biological sex’ crowd these days.
Can someone summarise this? I don’t visit corposhit media sites.
“I don’t think it’s because she’s trans. I’ve faced the discrimination she’s claiming, but in the years since we’ve taken the party back and it’s generally very pro trans, including other trans people sitting in gendered seats aligning with their genders. Instead it’s likely about her hostile behaviors and some statements she’s made”
thank you!
e: also thank you to @sourgumgum@lemmy.world for downvoting my “thank you” comment despite the fact that I gave no indication one way or the other what my opinion on the bsky shart was!
“I don’t think it’s because she’s trans, I was discriminated for the same wording as her but I actually think it’s because she’s not nice as she was a bully to me when I worked with her once and she didn’t listen to others ideas and she praised the deaths of Zionists”
Zack Polanski just stood on stage at Pride in London and said trans women are women so I will be interested to see his actions on this.
Probably silence like what he is with the anti-Zionists who were purged despite his big talk on Israel.
Polanski is proving to be a bit of a figure head.
FFS.
How is even the green party transphobic now? I’m actually shocked
Not only is it incredibly disappointing to find out, it’s absolutely going to massacre their support. Most of the TERFs are comfortably voting for the right wing parties, they are never in a million years voting for the greens.
It’s everywhere, disgusting
That’s nothing new.
Scottish Greens suspend ties with Green Party of England and Wales
The formal association between the parties was suspended over concerns of transphobia
Members stated that office-bearers of the Green Party of England and Wales had engaged in “transphobic rhetoric and conduct”, and claimed that the independence of the Scottish Greens had been ignored.
They also underlined the importance of protecting the rights of transgender people to gender affirming healthcare.
https://news.stv.tv/politics/scottish-greens-suspend-ties-with-green-party-of-england-and-wales
And the reason that Scottish Greens are working with Greens E&W is…they drummed the transphobes out of the party…
Yes, the Greens E&W were at one stage captured by Terfs - that’s history and no longer the case
Can’t we have one nice thing politically. fuck sake
This fits into “NotTheOnion” because what the fuck? It sounds like something Reform would do. is this real?
No it’s not real, it’s being misrepresented. Eleanora is suspended for reasons nothing to do with her being trans. She’s a toxic piece of work who also happens to be trans, and is trying to make that into the reason.
There are a number of transwomen in various positions in the party, including posts to be filled by women only.
She was suspended for the comments she made about Iran which were blatantly anti-semitic (anti-zionist is fine, but she well and truly crossed the line).
This would be compelling with sources; the OP explicitly disputes some of these points afaict.
She may well be toxic but if that was the main reason she’s being removed, they should be up front about it. And not have a very terf seeming man involved in removing her.
She was suspended (she hasnt yet been removed) because of a media post, not because she is toxic. I explicitly state that two lines below my opinion about her toxicity. Separate items.
Are you deliberately misreading or just seeing what you expect to see ?
I think my unwillingness to accept the party explanation is down to 2 factors:
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If the problem was bullying, or specific social media posts, or anything reasonable, that should be a perfect defense against transphobia. Unless the posts reveal protected information, there is no reason to hide behind process. The media is already reporting on it, so make this about the content not the candidate.
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Unless he’s had some dramatic change of heart, Kai is clearly a transphobe or sympathizer at best. If he’s running the suspension process, that’s one great reason to be skeptical of anything he says.
I am willing to believe the candidate was difficult but edge cases are where we decide who we are as a society.
edit: I did see you mention antisemitic posts indirectly, but that’s not what I see from the official communication and that is what I was reacting to. I still haven’t seen the actual offensive posts in question.
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What “antisemitic” thing are you talking about? Let me guess criticism of Israel
No, that’s why I differentiated between anti zionist and anti-semitic, and yes I am very well aware of how anti-semitic has been used as a bludgeon against anyone critical of the Israeli genocide.
So let’s put a marker down, I am wholeheartedly against the genocide being perpertrated (sp?) by Israel in Palestine.
I don’t have the quote to hand, but it was with reference to wanting Iran to wipe all jews off the planet or some such far too widely sweeping statement to be an acceptable comment by a Greens office bearer.
Perpetrated, since you asked :)
I did a quick search and cannot find anything about what you’re alleging. Are you going to hit me with
Just like “From the River to the Sea” is a call to genocide according to Zionists.
Provide something to back up such an extreme claim. Because we all know how Zionists twist words.
Post the quote from the source or rescind the comment.
If that were true then they should have said that as the official reason for her being suspended, but they didn’t which makes it seem more like you’re completely wrong
The Greens have not made ANY public statement on the subject - because the matter is under investigation - and you may notice if you do a quick search the ONLY publications putting out this story in the way you’re doing are right wing and far right - my search gives me hits for Daily Mail GB News and Telegraph, plus a handful of obscure right wing blogs. No greens announcement, and nothing out of the left wing (for the simple reason they dont have any facts to build a story on and unlike the Mail even terfy papers like the guardian don’t like to just make shit up)
If you can’t see “right wing attack job” written all over this then you need to look into your media literacy
Just because the right wing is attacking you doesn’t mean you’re right or good, if any of the info they’re reporting is verifiably untrue then you should be able to prove it
It sounds like something Reform would do
Welcome to Zionism
Aren’t the Green Anti-Zionist?
That needs an explanation
From the post that you commented under but seemingly didn’t read:
Of note is that Eleanora was elected to the spot and backed by ‘Greens for Palestine’ . 2 Weeks later she is out on transphobic grounds and seems to have her suspension leaked to the Daily Mail potentially by someone in the Greens.
Ok yeah I missed that.
I’m just gonna get out in front on this one and say this is the Green Party for England and Wales. Other UK Greens are available.
For a little context that may be useful, Unison, the trade union, got into a legal dispute over one of their women officer roles having a trans woman stand for it. She didn’t even win but some transphobic weirdo raised a dispute because her votes could have gone to someone else and maybe potentially caused someone else to win. The complainant won after a lot of fighting Unison, and Unison have had to have a re-think about how the women’s officer works in light of the new transphobic laws.
The greens probably panicked and didn’t want a legal battle. The entryists have hit their first major roadblock it seems.
For info: https://unison.org.uk/news/2026/08/response-decision-made-certification-officer-flaherty-v-unison
Who are the “entryists”?
Eleanora is amongst many others who flooded into the Green party after the fall out of Your Party hoping to move it to a more explicitly socialist position.
“Entryist” suggests an organised faction like the Militant in the Labour Party in the past. Are you sayimg that she belongs to a group that is attempting to take over the Greens? If so, who are they?
They weren’t quite as organised as Militant but there was a clear semi-coordinated push by ex-corbynists on social media in particular to join the Greens in the shambles of Your Party’s first bambi-like steps before it hemorrhaged its brains after falling.
I’d say this was definitely entryist in attitude, to take an existing party and flood it with new activists that would attempt to strong arm the party’s democratic structures to their own ends. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it per-se but I think entryism describes what was happening.
Dunno what’s responsible, but I couldn’t open this directly - nothing happened, presumably due to the tinyurl link. Put it through my URL cleaner app and wound up at the following address after a few redirects:
Thanks for the heads up, I didnt check the link, looks like it is working now though.
Either way people have a choice now too :D
Oh good, google, nothing wrong with their support for the green party and they’d never mess with politics(!)
You can find issues with virtually any site that can play host to user content. Google’s unlikely to even be aware of this, let alone be involved.
Broken link.
Whilst I’m a trans ally, I am a little sceptical on this one. I’m going to wait for the official response from the Green Party on this one before judging. So far we have seen no proof of any of this.
The lady in question is a bit of a bit of an inflammatory individual from the little I’ve seen from her socials.
Yeah, seeing more info, I’ve got my doubts about her story, especially considering another trans member of the party is calling bs
I’ve got my doubts on that other trans women when she provides nothing beyond an anecdotal unrelated story and the person involved in kicking her out is extremely transphobic and backed by other transphobes.
The discussion above implies that there may not be a party response due to “confidentiality” which seems odd when the party has defamed someone. I’d expect the ejectee would waive confidentiality.
Is there a politician that isn’t inflammatory to someone?
Defamation requires some degree of lying to damage someones reputation, so this is not defamation.
Technically they suspended them for being elected and for the subsequent media interest, per their own words. Both of those things factually occurred. “Brought the party into disrepute” is a flimsy enough statement that it could hold as being a true belief regardless of circumstances, its not something that can be factually identified as a lie.
There is much that could be said about how fucked up what they’ve done is, but its also not defamation
