To the Green party, whose membership will be called on to vote for their next leader this summer. Currently the party operates a curious policy whereby its next leaders or deputies, if job-sharing, must be of different genders – with Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer currently occupying the top job, having been elected in 2021. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling – which backed the biological definition of a woman – Mr S was rather curious about how exactly the judgment would impact the eco-activists. The short answer is, er, it won’t.
The environmentalists are determined to ignore the judgment from the highest court in the land, it seems.
The environmentalists are determined to ignore the judgment from the highest court in the land, it seems. Despite justices unanimously concluding that ‘women’ in the Equality Act referred to biological sex, the Greens will not change their constitution – which states that while job-sharing leaders must be ‘two individuals of a different gender’, ‘gender is self-determined’.
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