We have new Scottish Green leaders who seem more interested in trans rights than the climate. Other parties need to take up the fight, writes Rebecca McQuillan

When is a Green party not really a green party? When its red lines exclude climate activists.

New Scottish Greens co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay have declared that activists who are passionate about tackling climate change but don’t think that a trans woman is the same as a biological woman, are not wanted in their party.

If on the other hand you oppose Scottish independence, which puts you at odds with another key Scottish Green party policy, then you would be welcomed, they say.

Members’ views on trans rights, uniquely, seem to have been elevated to the status of heresy test.

In one sense there’s nothing remotely surprising about this, since the Scottish Greens have consistently stuck to the same line on trans rights. But it’s remarkable in another sense, because the two new leaders are adopting a stance that effectively excludes sensible moderate people who thought the Scottish Green Party existed mainly to campaign on the environment. That’s potentially an awful a lot of people.

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