"In an Instagram post, posted at the end of April and captioned "trans rights are human rights", Polanski reshared a post he had made in response to the Supreme Court ruling. He wrote: "Deep irony that they call this 'practical' implications when it's anything but. A consequence of the awful reporting around the Supreme Court often missing fundamental facts from the ruling. This is just more thinly veiled transphobia. The mask is off.""
"Zack Polanski, who launched his leadership bid in The Guardian in May, centred his bid on improving on the disappointment caused by both the Labour and Conservative governments. He said: "People are done with the two old parties and we're in this dangerous moment where Nigel Farage is absolutely ready to fill that vacuum...There's an empty space in politics, where we're not being as bold as we can be.""
Zack Polanski won the Green Party leadership with 20,411 votes, defeating Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns. The UK Supreme Court ruled that legal definitions of "women" and "sex" refer to biological distinctions. Adrian Ramsay avoided a direct answer on whether trans women are women and argued members with anti-trans views should retain the right to express them. Carla Denyer expressed solidarity with the trans community. Polanski publicly supported trans rights, resharing an Instagram post captioned "trans rights are human rights" and called the ruling thinly veiled transphobia. Polanski framed his leadership bid around addressing political disappointment and countering a Farage-shaped vacuum.
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