The Maryland Green Party is reaffirming its support for the GPUS platform on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, see below, which expresses equal rights for transgender people. We are taking this action because a division has developed in the Green Party. The Georgia Green Party has adopted a position inconsistent with this platform position. The Women's Caucus has correctly said "transgender women are women. We do not support the division and oppression of one oppressed group by further oppressing another."  We stand with the Women's Caucus and the Lavender Caucus in urging the Georgia Green Party to reconsider its position. We hope all state Green Parties will join the Maryland Green Party in urging equal rights for all regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.  

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

In keeping with the Green Key Values of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression.

1. The Green Party affirms the rights of all individuals to freely choose intimate partners, regardless of their sex, gender, or gender identity.

2. The Green Party recognizes the full civil rights of sexual and gender minorities. The existing civil rights act prohibits discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, and disability. We will work to add sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to the existing civil rights act.

3. The Green Party will be inclusive of language in local, state and federal anti- discrimination law that ensures the rights of intersex individuals and prohibits discrimination based on gender identity, characteristics, and expression as well as on sex, gender, or sexual orientation. We are opposed to non-consenting intersex genital surgery.

4. The Green Party affirms the right of all persons to self-determination with regard to gender identity and sex. We affirm the right of choosing non-binary and gender fluid identification. We therefore support the right of individuals to be free from coercion and involuntary assignment of gender or sex.

5. We will pursue legislation where offenders must pay compensation to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA) people who have suffered violence and injustice.

6. The Green Party will end all Federal military aid to national governments whose laws result in the death, other harm, or imprisonment of its citizens and residents who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA).

7. The Green Party will enact a policy that the U. S. Government recognize all same sex marriages or legal equivalents such as civil unions, in processing visitor and immigration visas.

8. The Green Party would end security surveillance and covert infiltration of organizations that promote rights for sexual and gender minorities.

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