The ban on men who identify as women taking part in female sports is colonialist and ‘misogynoir’ according to Green activists. 

Socially liberal Green members are angling to lift a ban stopping trans women competing in women’s sporting events, arguing it fuels ‘misogynoir’ – a particular kind of sexism faced by black women – and stems from ‘historical colonial and Eurocentric attitudes’.

In moves that have enraged women’s rights groups, Green activists are also calling for free menstrual products to be provided to ‘people’ who have periods.

To ensure that trans athletes are ‘not excluded from any part of public life’, a Green Party member has brought forward a motion calling for all sporting bodies to allow trans women to compete in women’s sport.

The motion is set to be heard at the party’s Spring conference in March, and if voted through by members, will become party policy.

This follows several sporting bodies – including the Football Association and World Athletics – barring trans women from competing in women’s sports in order to comply with the Supreme Court ruling that women are legally defined by their biological sex.

The document, shared with the Daily Mail, reads: ‘Gender-based segregation of sport has resulted in a culture within sports of misogynoir, which means that women from the Global Majority frequently face scrutiny for their appearance and perceived biological advantages.’

Examples include ethnic minority women who may have hyperandrogenism, intersex women with naturally higher levels of testosterone and women who have ‘body types that do not match restrictive Eurocentric expectations of femininity’.

Socially liberal Green members are angling to lift a ban stopping trans women competing in women’s sporting events, arguing it fuels ‘misogynoir’ – a particular kind of sexism faced by black women – and stems from ‘historical colonial and Eurocentric attitudes’

A Green Party member of Green Women’s Declaration, a group defending women’s sex-based rights, said that when the Supreme Court made its judgement, ‘the law and material reality was made clear to the whole country and to our leaders Zack [Polanski], Mothin [Ali] and Rachel [Millward]’

Several sporting bodies – including the Football Association and World Athletics – have barred trans women from competing in women’s sports in order to comply with the Supreme Court ruling that women are legally defined by their biological sex

The motion adds that ‘historical colonial and Eurocentric attitudes’ and misogyny ‘rooted in transmisogyny and misogynoir’ have influenced or still are influencing sporting norms in elite-level competition – and must be challenged.

Responding to the motion, Stuart Andrew, Shadow Health Secretary, said that the Green Party is ‘far too concerned with woke grandstanding to provide any serious answers to challenges we face’.

‘At a time when families are under real financial pressure, our focus must be on easing the cost of living and strengthening essential services, not virtue signalling,’ he said.

Women’s rights campaigners have also blasted the activist plans as ‘unfathomable’ and ‘extraordinary’.

Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at sex-based rights charity Sex Matters, told the Daily Mail: ‘No one is banned from sport, but this lofty motion from the Greens is for men to be allowed into women’s sport.

‘These people are a million miles from grasping the painful reality for women who have to compete with men who identify as female.

‘It’s unfathomable that some people argue that defending hard-fought women’s rights is a form of ‘misogyny’ against men who want to be women. Opposing single-sex sport is pure, shameless sexism against women.’

Jude English, a Bristol Green Party member of Green Women’s Declaration, a group defending women’s sex-based rights, said that when the Supreme Court made its judgement, ‘the law and material reality was made clear to the whole country and to our leaders Zack [Polanski], Mothin [Ali] and Rachel [Millward]’. 

She added: ‘Unworkable motions like these distract from the real work of preventing ecological and economic collapse across whole communities at home and abroad.’ 

Green members are also pushing for taxpayers to fund free menstrual products for ‘people who menstruate’.

A motion brought forward by a male Green Party member calls the menstrual cycle ‘a natural process that people have monthly’.

It adds that with the cost of living increasing ‘people who have periods’ are ‘more disadvantaged’.

This comes as voters head to the polls in Gorton and Denton, where the Greens hope to return a fifth MP to Parliament. 

The Green Party did not respond to a request for comment.