For Immediate Release
Monday, December 2nd, 2024

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Stein Results Depressed by Party Loyalty to Gender Lobby
Greens followed Democrat lead, Paid the price at the Polls
GASBR welcomes Ware statement protecting women’s sports

"We offered Jill Stein our counsel early and often, and long before any of the primaries," said Rich Whitney, treasurer for the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights (GASBR).  "We and our allies reached out multiple times, in multiple ways.  Stein ignored all entreaties.  Now her dismal showing at the polls may be attributed at least partly to her tone deafness to the electorate's rejection of gender ideology."  

GASBR Secretary Hugh Esco last week published a blog post (linked below) which discussed "the public conversation among Democrat operatives and aligned journalists on the ideological capture of the Democrat Party by the gender lobby and the role it likely played in giving Trump a popular majority."  He begins his article by recounting the results from Stein's three presidential runs: 2012: 469,627 votes or 0.36%; 2016: 1,457,218 votes or 1.07% and 2024: 777,278, roughly 0.5%.  As many as 12 million 2020 voters failed to participate in the 2024 US election.  The Esco piece, which reflects on a similar examination about the Democrat Party by Leor Sapir, poses the question:  "With a campaign against the party of genocide, including broad mobilizations among muslim voters particularly by the Abandon Harris campaign and related efforts, why did the numbers not grow?"

The Green Alliance welcomes the statements of the party’s running mate, Dr. Butch Ware, in support of protecting women’s and girl’s sports from the unfair competition of male athletes.  Efforts by ‘twitter warriors’ (Ware’s words) to compel what the Esco blog describes as a ‘hostage apology’ from Ware (linked below) on the weekend prior to the close of the polls are indicative of the authoritarian and cultish tendencies which still drive internal party politics.  This campaign targeting Dr. Ware  took offense to his use of the phrase ‘biological men’, to describe men seeking to compete in women’s sports, attempting to police the candidate’s speech on this point.  The Louisiana Party officers absurdly went so far as to demand that Ware withdraw from the race, in an email with a subject line demanding he be dropped from the ticket, only days before the polls closed.  Even though their state ballot listed Ajamu Baraka, not Bilal Ware as the running mate, they nonetheless  encouraged voters to support an opposing ticket from a competing party.  

This is reminiscent of the year old rumour of a deleted tweet where the chair of the national party’s trans caucus is alleged to have taken credit for chasing Cornel West out of the party by demanding he espouse positions in alignment with the Lavender Caucus.  West had endorsed Jill Stein’s 2016 run after Sanders acquiesced to Clinton’s nomination.  This cycle West dropped his bid for Green Party nomination, and went on to mount a campaign as an Independent after this incident, additionally siphoning off votes that in all likelihood would have gone to the Green Party.

GASBR, initially in private correspondence with Dr. Stein and eventually in statements published over the past year, has documented the multiple ways in which both the Party and its Stein campaign have prioritized virtue signalling to those who identify as “trans” or “non-binary” and who promote sex denialism, over sending a clear message supporting evidence-based science.  Polls have shown that these positions have alienated a growing majority of the general electorate, including a substantial number of Greens, who acknowledge material biological reality. The Esco blog described Stein’s rhetorical base as "a silo of those young people most victimized by the cult and the useful idiots who tell us they speak for them."   Stein’s campaign messaging repeatedly marginalized itself playing to this small voting segment, to the detriment of the campaign and the credibility of the party itself.  The most relevant of those public GASBR statements were recently indexed with other resources by the Georgia Green Party on its website (link below).  

"It's as if our party has abandoned the field," said Denice Traina, a GASBR cochair, who also serves as cochair of the Georgia Green Party.  "Even muslim voters who endorsed and rallied to our campaign in opposition to genocide did so with reluctance due to the party's gender insanity.  It’s hard to imagine why a party which refuses corporate money would shill for this corporate marketing campaign.  We know the gender industries have captured our educational institutions, own the legacy and social media platforms, and exert authoritarian control over public debate. Still, had the Green Party not followed the Democrats on this and respected the will of voters, we might have enjoyed a bump in support this election cycle."

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A Green Party Reckoning with Gender Ideology
https://www.pac.gendercriticalgreens.org/blog/hesco/Green_Party_Reckoning_with_Gender_Ideology 

Understanding conflict between Georgia Green Party
and the national party and Stein-Ware campaign
https://georgiagreenparty.org/understanding-conflict-between-georgia-green-party-and-the-national-party-and-stein-ware-campaign/ 

Butch Ware, in lieu of the hostage statement demanded of him
https://x.com/butchware/status/1852779905630765354?s=46