The newly elected convenor of the Victorian Greens, Linda Gale, has been ousted from the role for written statements she made in 2019 about trans issues.
Newly elected convenor of the Victorian Greens, Linda Gale, has been ousted over statements she made in 2019 about trans issues.
Gale was elected as convenor one week ago, triggering protest on social media from some members about a three-year-old internal discussion paper she authored, titled “Trans Exclusionary Rhetoric, Contending Views”. The decision was made by an administrative review panel the night before the state council meeting on Saturday.on Saturday that she was feeling “shell shocked”, as well as “a sense of betrayal” by some people who had previously expressed respect for her work in many Greens roles over 11 years. She is weighing up her options to contest a re-run election.
She said the paper did not propose answers but stated that in areas such as “the consequences of having male-bodied people in women’s prisons ... in women’s wards in hospitals ... and as staff or clients in women’s shelters and refuges – there are questions that we need to talk about”. “Her past statements, and unwillingness to acknowledge the pain they cause, have so firmly associated Linda with opposition to trans rights that nothing she now says can alter that,” Read wrote on Facebook.
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