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Green Party’s Trans Court Case Is a Sign of Things to Come

by Richard Eldred
22 August 2023 7:00 PM

Dr. Shahrar Ali, the Green Party’s former Deputy Leader, is suing the party for discrimination over his views on biological sex. In her piece for UnHerd, Joan Smith explores the landmark legal case that brings the simmering tensions over free speech and gender issues within political parties to the fore. Here’s an excerpt:

How did the Greens become so focused on trans rights that they’ve ended up in court? The question is at the heart of a landmark action brought by the party’s former Deputy Leader, Dr. Shahrar Ali, which is being heard this week. In what is believed to be the first civil case of its kind, he is claiming he suffered discrimination, hostility and victimisation because of his belief in biological sex. 

Ali was sacked last year as the Greens’ spokesman on Policing and Domestic Safety after he was accused of breaking the party’s code of conduct. He was told that his “decision to champion a highly controversial position in the trans rights debate” was incompatible with the role. His offence? Arguing that sex is immutable, an opinion shared by most human beings who have ever lived. 

He even believes – pause for gasps of horror – that a woman is an adult human female, and issued a statement to that effect when he ran for leader three years ago. That such statements can be characterised as “highly controversial” demonstrates how radically opinion within political parties – beyond just the Greens – has shifted in little more than a decade. …

People can believe whatever they like, but Ali’s case highlights what he calls a “fanatical clampdown on legitimate debate”. There have always been factions and disagreements within political parties, but the hostility faced by members with gender-critical views is unprecedented. During the Labour leadership contest in 2020, most of the candidates signed a ‘pledge’ threatening members who hold ‘transphobic’ views with expulsion.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Biological sexFree SpeechGender IdeologyGreen PartyTrans McCarthyism

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago

More evidence that anybody who is a green is likely to be mentally deficient.

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Castorp
Castorp
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

A little too harsh maybe. That said, I do appreciate that the ‘Maoist wannabe’ attitude does make one look rather deranged and disagreeable.
I’d put it down to inner psychological work these folks haven’t done.
As a result, they tend to just project their own wounds and inadequacies into the public sphere in a ‘fashionable’ format that will earn them some sort of kudos.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

I don’t think this is a great test case. He was a senior representative of a political party with most likely bullshit loony views on “trans” nonsense. Would be better if the case was clearer cut, where one’s views on “trans” were irrelevant to the job.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

“It is the view of this court, that – the legality of Dr Ali’s beliefs notwithstanding – the Green Party was within its legal and moral rights to remove Dr Ali from office. His actions attacked the protected characteristics of a small but significant sector of the population, and British political and state institutions respect the rights and needs of the individual. Dr Ali’s statements have no place in civilised, British society. The case is hereby dismissed as vexatious and a waste of court time.”

You just wait.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

How ironic, seeing that the Green Party’s entire mission is to impose a “fanatical clampdown on legitimate debate” about environmental issues, particularly the climate.

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago

Again, the madness continues.

https://youtu.be/h82D5ZvcALM

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