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Siân Berry on transphobia in the Green Party: ‘We have a problem to solve’

Exclusive: Days after quitting as co-leader, Berry talks to openDemocracy about the rifts in her party and the need to be ‘actively anti-transphobic’

Siân Berry on transphobia in the Green Party: ‘We have a problem to solve’
Siân Berry speaking at a conference in London, 2019 | Centre for London, some rights reserved.
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“I’ve been really stuck for the past month,” Siân Berry told me from her flat in Tufnell Park, north London.

In May, the Green Party co-leader campaigned to be mayor of London on the promise of making the city the most trans-inclusive on earth. But this month, she was unable to stop someone who has called for the restriction of trans rights being appointed as a spokesperson for her own party.

And so, on Wednesday, she announced she would be standing down as co-leader.