We asked all Deputy Leader and GPEx candidates to take the following pledges:
- Campaign with the LGBTIQA+ Greens to protect trans rights in the Equality Act and fight for reform of the Gender Recognition Act so that it is a kinder and less bureaucratic process for recognising trans people’s gender, and recognises non-binary identities.
- Recognise that non-binary identities exist and promise to ensure they are recognised in internal processes and in wider society.
- Support reserved places on the Green Party Council for LGBTIQA+ people, which is to be created.
- Support efforts to get more LGBTIQA+ people elected to internal offices in the party and public office externally.
- Support gender affirming healthcare for trans youth, rejecting ideological interference with current practice.
- Agree to press for full implementation of the government’s LGBT+ Action Plan, including legislating for a complete ban on conversion therapy, that covers trans, non-binary and ace people.
- Call for proper funding for trans healthcare in the NHS and a reduction of 3 year+ waiting lists.
- Support active LGBTIQA+ Greens’ campaigns: LGBTQ Refugees, a Full Ban on Conversion Therapy and Zero HIV by 2030 (zero deaths, zero new infections and zero stigma).
- Acknowledge wholeheartedly that fighting for LGBTIQA+ liberation goes hand in hand with fighting the climate crisis.