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Stein Results Depressed by Party Loyalty to Gender Lobby

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National Green Party Sacrifices Credibility for Gender Cult

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Georgia Green Party Rejects Platform Challenge to Support for Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights

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Stein Campaign Platform Doubles Down for the Gender Cult

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Stein Campaign Platform Doubles Down for the Gender Cult
Platform reveals commitment to TQ+ Agenda;
ignores public opinion, the impacts on females, children, lesbian and gay youth,
and the advise of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights

Today, the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights released a letter first sent to Dr. Jill Stein on March 25th. On that date, GASBR responded to a Jill Stein campaign mailing of the previous month with an eight-page letter deconstructing the positions staked out by the campaign on a number of issues related to gender ideology. That letter was sent privately to Dr. Stein by email and was hand delivered to her home. Dr. Stein made no effort to respond directly to the GASBR letter, nor to dialogue with GASBR members on the multiple issues raised, instead doubling down with the May 17th publication of her 2024 campaign platform.

“The positions staked out by Dr. Stein in this document leave her at best a subject of critical or reluctant support by some of our members, and neutrality or even opposition by others. More importantly, they undermine her campaign’s ability to reach out to vast swaths of disaffected US voters who find themselves politically homeless by their witness of the assaults on women’s rights by all political parties, pro-peace or pro-war, corporate or otherwise, across the political spectrum,” said Denice Traina, Co-Chair for the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights and for the Georgia Green Party¹. “Sadly that list now includes far too many in the national Green Party, though thankfully not my own state party.”

In the Stein 2024 campaign platform, as a part of a plank labeled at least originally ‘LGBTQIA+ Rights’, the Stein campaign has unquestioningly embraced the rhetoric and misinformed narratives of the lobby for gender ideology, following the lead of the Democratic Party on gender identity including its promotion of sex denialism, the elimination of women’s sports and privacy protections, and medicalization and sterilization of lesbian, gay and gender non-conforming minors, and other young people on the autism spectrum and those who have survived trauma.

Stein seems unaware of the ongoing global developments regarding so-called “Gender Affirming Care” of minors, (WPATH Papers / Cass Review Final Report) which argue for a re-evaluation of the long debunked policies now being advocated by the Stein Campaign. It is particularly troubling to see the degree to which Jill Stein, herself a now retired medical doctor, has ignored the comprehensive reviews of the medical literature related to gender medicine; and their findings. As one researcher put it, “the research evidence claiming to show positive effects from cross-sex hormones or surgery is not scientifically adequate. Many studies are flawed and not reliable.”

Polling data has consistently shown that super-majorities of US voters across the political spectrum reject the policy demands being advanced by the pharmaceutical and medical industry, funded by the lobby for gender ideology and woven into the law by elected Democrats. This includes people in the LGB community itself who are challenging medical transition of minors, which many consider a homophobic practice, including liberal groups like the LGB Alliance USA, the LGBT Courage Coalition, and more conservative groups like Gays Against Groomers. Nonetheless, the Stein Campaign platform, as well as the Green Party platform, aligns with that of the Democrats, and demonstrates its uncritical support for those same demands. Her platform makes clear that she has apparently failed to even consider the meticulously documented information provided in the GASBR letter to Dr. Stein of March 25th.

The women’s plank cites German Green Party founder, Petra Kelly as having said:

“The liberation of women and men from the bonds of patriarchy is essential
to the work of building a peaceful, just, and ecological society.”

Ironically, also as a part of her women’s rights plank, Stein lends the weight of her campaign to advancing the monetary interests of the world’s oldest oppression. She astonishingly calls for the repeal of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA), which have provided powerful tools to law enforcement for the prosecution of pimps using the Internet to market the women they traffic. One has to ask why Stein would wish to inhibit the pursuit of sex traffickers. This is the kind of misguided policy position that springs from minimizing the harms of prostitution by adopting the pimp’s talking points, as she does with her reference to “sex work”.

The Platform of the Green Party of the United States continues to call for Nordic Model reforms, which would criminalize the johns (whose purchases create the demand) and the pimps (who profit from the exploitation) while protecting from criminal prosecution and providing social services sufficient to an exit strategy for the mostly women exploited by the industry, but Stein does not include this in her platform. Instead she calls for the decriminalization of all sex work. Her use of this term propagated by the sex-industry in their efforts to whitewash the degrading and dehumanizing oppression of prostitution and doing so in a discussion of women’s rights is telling of her lack of understanding of female oppression, any commitment to women’s liberation, and a lack of empathy for women’s victimization and suffering..

Further, her women’s rights plank calls for ‘protect(ing) and enforc(ing) Title IX’, with no self-awareness that these goals are directly undermined by the positions she stakes out in support of the Democratic Party position regarding gender identity. Stein appears oblivious to the fact that the demands of trans-identified males’ to enter women’s sports teams negate Title IX and infringe on the sex-based rights of women and girls to female-only sports and safe spaces, ignoring actual females’ right to safety, privacy, dignity, and equal opportunity.

Stein advocates for the abolition of “misgendered imprisonment,” i.e. the incarceration of men with women prisoners. Female prisoners are being raped and terrorized by male sexual predators^{2 3} who have been convicted of raping and murdering women and girls. These men who have violated women’s basic human rights are now self-id’ing their way into the women’s prisons without consideration by prison officials of the likelihood that female cellmates of these convicted felons will be locked up 24/7 with someone with a proven history of attacks on women. Litigation is already characterizing these practices as an Eighth Amendment violation against the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Stein’s embrace of this demand by men’s rights activists leaves Greens wondering why she is not concerned for the well-being of women prisoners, many of whom have been victims of male brutality and exploitation in the past.

Stein calls for the blurring of boundaries, endorsing institutional sex denialism, promoting the spurious category of “non-binary” while she voices support for the indoctrination of children in the schools and the continuation of medicalizing lesbian and gay and gender non-conforming minors, and requiring this medical malpractice to be covered by insurance providers. If such individuals demand medical intervention to transition while they are imprisoned, even then the taxpayers must pay for it.

Among the specific campaign promises made in the TQ+ plank advancing policies most troubling to GASBR members, . . .

Support for the Equality Act, which many feminists, including lesbians, have critiqued for undermining the long fought-for gains for women’s rights. One such group, Feminists in Struggle, has called for its amendment to preserve women’s rights while expanding the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and all gender non-conforming people, whether trans-identified or not;
Uncritical advocacy for the ‘implement(ion of) LGBTQIA+ inclusive public education to combat bullying’; which has served as cover for the indoctrination of children into gender ideology and queer theory, and the creation of in-school cultures hostile to critical thinking and free expression which challenge the compelled speech supporting its theories and assertions;
A call for federal legislation to ban ‘conversion therapy’, which has come to mean ignoring the evidence basis for what is called ‘gender medicine’, and overlooking the irreparable and life-changing ‘trans-away-the-gay’ conversion therapy for which these bans provide legal cover;
A call to end ‘cumbersome legal name change requirements and fees’, which have provided some limited means to track convicted predators across self-declared and self-identified gender identity/sex-change;
A call to ‘(d)eclare trans murder and suicide rates a national emergency’, ignoring the lack of evidence that either murders or suicides are disproportionately impacting trans-identified individuals at rates which would constitute a national emergency, while also ignoring the staggering rate of male violence towards natal females;
A call to ‘degender . . . Federal public documents’, contributing to the erasure of women;
‘Prohibit insurance companies from denying trans-affirming procedures’ guaranteeing a payment source on which the gender medicine industry’s future revenue growth depends, mischaracterizing cosmetic procedures introducing iatrogenic harms as ‘life-saving health care’ in the face of growing evidence, particularly for pediatric patients, documented in comprehensive reviews that it is anything but;
A call to rewrite medical literature to satisfy the gender extremists’ demand to destigmatize trans identity with a ban on the use of so-called transmedicalist language and the erasure of sex despite its high degree of relevance to medical care;
A call to ‘(o)utlaw misgendered imprisonment nationwide’, a practice which in multiple states has already turned women’s prisons into rape camps, with the female prisoners being terrorized by convicted rapists and sexual predators, and resulting in multiple unwanted pregnancies.

GASBR activists have repeatedly attempted to engage with Stein over a period of many months. While many of our members support her outstanding positions on issues such as Palestne and Gaza, Stein’s lack of understanding and concern for the rights of women leaves us no choice but to denounce her clear allegiance to what we perceive as a cult of misogyny, the unscientific sex denialism and sexist erosion of the hard-won rights and erasure of women.

“I fear that too many in the party have been mis-educated in a rhetoric which has co-opted, contorted, and corrupted the language of feminism to advance the interests of misogynist men”, said Ms. Traina. “GASBR intends to change that.”

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GASBR Letter to Dr. Jill Stein, dated March 25th, 2024
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/system/files/media_pr/2024/06/Letter_to_Jill_Stein--20240325.pdf

Jill Stein 2024 Campaign Platform
https://www.jillstein2024.com/platform

¹Included here for identification purposes, with no intent to imply that the positions taken by the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights represents those of the Georgia Green Party.

²https://womensliberationfront.org/womens-prisons

³https://usa.kpssinfo.org/

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GASBR Welcomes Vital Conversation on Constitutional Crisis

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Biden Administration Delivers Blow to Title IX

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Stein Campaign Confirms its Capture by Gender Ideologists

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GASBR Welcomes Stein Pledge on ERA; Expects More from a Green Candidate

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GASBR Welcomes Stein Pledge on ERA
Expects More from a Green Candidate

Last week, Dr. Jill Stein, a candidate for the Green Party nomination for President of the United States at a campaign event at a home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stated “We would do that on day one for sure”, in response to a question on the Equal Rights Amendment, indicating her support.

“While we welcome this first public statement from her campaign on this subject, we expect much more from the presumptive nominee of a self-described feminist political party,” said Carol A. Bouldin, Co-Chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights. “It is not enough that she responds to questions on the subject. Women in the United States need Dr. Stein to lead on this issue and incorporate it into her stump speech at every appearance in order to educate voters and demand immediate action from the current administration, long before the polls open for the November election.”

GASBR’s ERA Task Force has for months been communicating with Jill Stein about the Constitutional Crisis facing this nation and the political opportunity available to her campaign in this historic moment. GASBR has been asking Stein to educate her campaign supporters and the public about the Trump and Biden Administrations’ obstruction of the ministerial duty of the National Archivist, in defiance of their oath of office to serve and protect the Constitution, including the Article V. provisions governing how it is amended.

Although private assurances from Dr. Stein promised action on the Equal Rights Amendment, the first time we have seen her speak in a public setting on the topic was in a video which surfaced from last Tuesday’s event in Milwaukee. She has, however, referred to the ERA having “met the constitutional standard” in an International Women’s Day themed message sent to her campaign email list earlier this month.

Constitutional recognition that the ‘equal protection of the law shall not be denied or abridged . . . on the basis of sex’ is expected to have a profound impact addressing the inequities in current US law adversely impacting women across a broad spectrum of issues. The failure to properly publish the ERA onto the Constitution left Roe vulnerable to roll back in the Dobbs v Jackson WHO case decided last year. A laundry list of concerns addressed by Dr. Stein’s IWD message would be diminished greatly were women to have their fundamental federal Constitutional rights acknowledged by the publication of the ERA, finally affording women equal standing before the law.

The Platform of the Green Party of the United States has since at least 2004 supported the ‘three-state strategy for ratification’ of the Equal Rights Amendment. The leadership of women organizers in Nevada (March 21, 2017), Illinois (May 30, 2018) and Virginia (January 27, 2020), led by the organization Equal Means Equal, fulfilled that strategy. Title 1 US Code Section 106(b) creates an affirmative duty that the National Archivist publish recognition of final state ratification in the Federal Register. But publication has been frustrated by reactionary politics playing outin a memo by the DoJ Office of Legal Counsel and the DoJ opposition before the federal courts, led first by the Trump, and now the Biden Administration.

The Equal Rights Amendment is central to any strategy to address women’s oppression in this country. GASBR calls on Dr. Stein to educate her supporters as well as the general public on these issues indispensable to women’s liberation and advancement.

“2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the first time the ERA was filed with Congress. This election should offer us at least one politician willing to stand out from the crowd who dares to say, ‘women have waited long enough’”, said Romi Elnagar, a former co-chair of GASBR. “Our foremothers did not win the franchise, nor secure the 1923 introduction of the ERA by sitting quietly with hands folded in their laps. We have been ignored by the Biden Administration. Now it’s time Stein step up and lead on this issue, as she has on US complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine and as she has with a plan to confront the threats of catastrophic climate change”.

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Biden Continues to Dissemble on ERA as Administration Fails to Address Constitutional Crisis

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Biden Continues to Dissemble on ERA
as Administration Fails to Address Constitutional Crisis

Pandering for women's votes, on August 26, President Biden published a two paragraph statement for Women's Equality Day, stating that he will "continue to urge Congress to act swiftly to recognize ratification of the ERA". Yet the Biden Administration's Department of Justice argued before the DC Court of Appeals last fall that there is no role left for Congress in the process.

Although he campaigned for women’s votes in 2020, promising to support the Equal Rights Amendment that achieved final ratification in January of that year, President Biden has failed to instruct the National Archivists to fulfill their statutory obligation to “publish . . . forthwith” the duly ratified Equal Rights Amendment. Biden appointed Dr. Colleen Shogan as our eleventh National Archivist. Dr. Shogan at her Senate confirmation hearing said she would demur to judicial authorities over whether to fulfill her statutory duty to publish a finding that the Equal Rights Amendment has been ratified.

"If Biden has really 'supported the ERA since (he) first ran for public office', as he asserted in his statement last week, why hasn't he picked up the phone and instructed the National Archivist to do her job and publish it?" asked Carol Bouldin, a co-chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights, a membership organization. "His behavior leaves us with only two viable options, either he does not understand the Constitution he swore an oath to defend; or he remains hostile to women's equality but is lying because his re-election is dependent on women's votes. Our members are asking, which is it?"

In oral arguments last fall before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice opposed litigation that would have compelled the National Archivist to perform her duty (Title 1 US Code Section 106b) to “publish . . . forthwith” a Constitutional Amendment which has met the requirements of Article V., of the U.S. Constitution for the amendment of our nation’s governing charter.

Those conditions have been met with the 1972 action by a two-thirds majority of each chamber of the U.S. Congress to submit the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification; and by the subsequent ratification between 1972 and 2020, by 38 states, constituting three-fourths of the states, to ratify the ERA.

"While we welcome the pledge by Biden's primary opponent, Marianne Williamson, for day one action to instruct Dr. Shogan to fulfill her statutory obligation as the Archivist to publish the ERA, we need not wait for January 20th, 2025. We must see action from Biden," said Ms. Bouldin. "Biden is already the President. He already supervises the National Archivist. And if he were being honest with the American people, he'd stop blaming Congress for inaction and pick up the phone and get the job done."

The ERA achieved final ratification in January 2020 and enjoys the support of 75% to 94% of the public, while 80% would be surprised to learn it is not already enforceable.

The Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights is a pro-feminist, gender-critical, women-led membership organization, independent of corporate parties and influence, seeking to engage in elections and other political activities.

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Statement from President Joe Biden on Equal Rights Amendment Centennial
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-equal-rights-amendment-centennial/

Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights urges
President Biden to Instruct Archivist to Publish the ERA
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/take_action/Tell_President_Biden--Pick_up_the_Phone--Publish_the_ERA

Marianne Williamson Pledges Day-One Action to Publish the Equal Rights Amendment
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/blog/hesco/Williamson_pledges_day_one_action_to_publish_ERA

Biden Nominee for National Archivist Demurs to Courts on Publication of ERA
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/news/equal-rights-amendment/National_Archivist_Confirmation_Hearing--Colleen_Shogan

Oral Arguments Before US Court of Appeals for District of Columbia,
in Illinois et al v David Fierro
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/news/equal-rights-amendment/Illinois-v-Fiero--oral_arguments--us-court-of-appeals

NOW-PAC Squanders Political Capital; Undermines Own Mission, Opportunity to Demand Equality for Women

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NOW-PAC Squanders Political Capital
Undermines Own Mission, Opportunity to Demand Equality for Women
Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights organizes for an independent politics

As primary opponent Marianne Williamson used her keynote address on Friday to the Georgia chapter of NOW to pledge day one action to instruct the National Archivist to publish the Equal Rights Amendment, the “political action committee of the National Organization for Women (NOW), announced . . . it is endorsing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for reelection in 2024.”

In their announcement, NOW’s National President sought to deceive her own membership and the voting public, claiming “This is our earliest endorsement for a presidential re-election campaign because the Biden-Harris administration has and continues to place women’s issues at the forefront, not through words but through actions.”

Yet, the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights has repeatedly pointed out that both the actions and the inactions of the Biden Administration have created a Constitutional Crisis, and are evidence of President Biden’s failure in his Constitutional duty to see that the laws of the nation are faithfully executed.

“Women have been betrayed long enough by operatives in the non-profit sector who have prioritized their own partisan loyalties over their organization’s stated missions to work for the interests of women,” said Carol Bouldin of California, a co-chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights. The Alliance exists to “organiz(e) political action independent of the corporate parties”.

NOW-PAC Squanders Political Capital

Although he campaigned for women’s votes in 2020 promising to support the Equal Rights Amendment, which achieved final ratification in January of that year, President Biden has failed to instruct the National Archivists to fulfill their statutory obligation to “publish . . . forthwith” the duly ratified Equal Rights Amendment. Biden appointed Dr. Colleen Shogan as our 11th National Archivist. Dr. Shogan at her Senate confirmation hearing committed to demur to judicial authorities over whether to fulfill her statutory duty to publish a finding that the Equal Rights Amendment has been ratified.

In oral arguments last fall before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice opposed litigation seeking to compel the National Archivist to perform her duty (Title 1 US Code Section 106b) to “publish . . . forthwith” a Constitutional Amendment which has met the requirements of Article V., of the U.S. Constitution for the amendment of our nation’s governing charter. Those conditions have been met with the 1973 action by a two-thirds majority of each chamber of the U.S. Congress to submit the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification; and by the subsequent ratification between 1973 and 2020, by 38 states, constituting three-fourths of the states, to ratify the ERA.

At the state conference in Stockbridge Georgia of the Georgia Chapter of the National Organization for Women, held Friday, August 25th, 2023, the same date on which the NOW-PAC announced its “earliest endorsement for a presidential reelection campaign”, Marianne Williamson, a candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2024 Presidential nomination, told attendees: “I will say it directly. On day one of my Presidency, I will call the archivist and command the publication of the Equal Rights Amendment.” We call on all the other 2024 presidential candidates, regardless of political affiliation, to follow her lead and pledge to fulfill their constitutional duty and direct the Archivist to publish the ERA.

The ERA achieved final ratification in January 2020 and enjoys the support of 75% to 94% of the public, while 80% would be surprised to learn it is not already enforceable.
The Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights is a pro-feminist, gender-critical, women-led membership organization, independent of corporate parties and influence, seeking to engage in elections and other political activities.

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NOW PAC Endorses President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for Re-election
https://now.org/media-center/press-release/now-pac-endorses-president-j…ent-kamala-harris-for-re-election/

Marianne Williamson Pledges Day-One Action to Publish the Equal Rights Amendment
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/blog/hesco/Williamson_pledges_…

Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights urges
President Biden to Instruct Archivist to Publish the ERA
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/take_action/Tell_President_Bid…

Biden Nominee for National Archivist Demurs to Courts on Publication of ERA
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/news/equal-rights-amendment/Na…

Oral Arguments Before
US Court of Appeals for District of Columbia,
in Illinois et al v David Fierro
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/news/equal-rights-amendment/Il…