Reposted by Trans Greens 🏳️⚧️💚
This is a cross party statement in solidarity with @greenpartyhan.bsky.social after what happened this weekend.
Thanks to all the LGBT and Feminist organisations within all the respective parties for signing this, and it was amazing working with you all.
![Telegraph article.
"Another motion put forward for consideration at the party’s spring conference would end all blanket bans on transgender athletes in women’s sport.
The motion was tabled by Melissa Harker, a press officer for the LGBTIQA+ Greens pressure group."
It then has a photo of me with the caption: "Melissa Harker, a Green trans campaigner, is calling for an end to the transgender bans in women’s sport"
It goes on:
"Ms Harker’s policy proposal warned that blanket bans have “serious consequences for gender-diverse and global majority [of African, Asian, Latin American and Arab descent] peoples’ mental and physical health”.
It went on to claim that “historical colonial and Eurocentric attitudes” have long affected elite sports and continued to have an impact.
If passed, the motion would be required to call on all sporting bodies to allow trans athletes to compete, working towards a long-term ambition to “undo the toxic environment around trans, intersex and gender non-conforming people in sport”."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bgababugqq4mz3vduz52zq7w/bafkreidfmagewkt6b5bhwxqhmogf7trlb7i4pcutzcsnlodzlyrdlteh6i)
