BBC: Ex-Green deputy leader launches new legal action against party. Ali, who won a landmark case against the Green Party in Feb 2024, has accused the party of "procedural abuse", and continuing to discriminate against him for his gender critical beliefs.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… The timing of the legal action is likely to cast a shadow over the Green Party's conference in seven days, where internal divisions over gender have already sparked controversy.

A party spokesperson said "we do not recognise the vague claims" made by Ali and it was focusing on political work under the new leadership of Zack Polanski.

In February, a judge found that the Greens had unlawfully discriminated against Ali during a row over his gender-critical beliefs.

Ali was awarded damages of £9,100.

The Greens were also ordered to pay him a further £90,000 in costs in September after the court found his removal as a spokesperson had been procedurally unfair and amounted to direct discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

♀️ BREAKING NEWS! ⚖️ GROUNDHOG DAY: Former Deputy Leader Instructs Lawyers to take GPEW to Court Second Time.
🧵 “In politics as in court, Green Party plays nothing if not dirty. We, however, play clean – Truth, as with justice, will continue to prevail.”
crowdjustice.com/case/groundhog… Unlawful Discrimination since Winning Landmark GC discrimination case in politics

In February 2024, Ali won his claim for unlawful discrimination against the Green Party after they removed him, two years earlier, as a front bench Justice Spokesperson. It had already been established by @MForstater at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, in 2021, that belief in sex realism was Worthy of Respect in a Democratic Society. In Ali’s case, the courts also ruled that, despite the necessarily higher thresholds for lawful freedom of expression in political associations, politicians were still protected from gender critical belief discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. @TheGreenParty had breached that threshold. (Shahrar Ali wins 'gender critical' court battle against Green Party - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…)

In August 2024, the Green Party subjected Ali to two sets of complaints, concurrently – each based on his sex realist statements on social media. They subsequently notified him of two types of sanction, purporting to both suspend and exclude him, simultaneously, which had the effect of removing the rights associated with his membership in a targeted act of overkill.

Dr Shahrar Ali said, “After 22 years an active member, having just won a two-year court battle against the Party, you can imagine my horror and dismay at being so blatantly discriminated against, again – excluded with breathtaking chutzpa. Despite an encouragement from the judge for rapprochement between the parties, and fat chance of an apology from the Party, I found myself being punished instead. This felt like victimisation on steroids!”

♀️ JUDGMENT ⚖️ has landed! WE WON!! Wow! Just Wow! This is HUGE!! Our Gender Critical beliefs Are Worthy of Respect in A Political Party!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙏💚♀️💚♀️💚 #AliVsGPEW Please Tell the World 📣 📣 WE WON!! “I find that by removing him as spokesperson in a procedurally unfair way, GPEx discriminated against Dr Ali because of his [gender critical] protected belief contrary to section 101 of the Equality Act.” (Judge Hellman, 250, p. 56) #AliVsGPEW

Why other journos refusing to cover this? Not newsworthy? No, doesn't fit their spineless Guardian woke narrative. But risks were warned of.
👉 A paedophile duped staff into letting her stay at a domestic violence refuge for women and children for 71 days.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… 👉Katie Dolatowski, 22, got into Leeds Women's Aid refuge under a victim alias 
👉Dolatowski sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl in a toilet in 2018
👉Her past came to light ten weeks after she arrived
👉A refuge guest said knowing an abuser was there made her skin crawl

Short thread 🧵on #Mermaids, Aimee Challenor & Green Party. In 2016, Challenor, then prominent in our party, organised an open letter to attack Daily Mail for running a story questioning role of Mermaids in a dispute between parents on social transitioning of their child. Here's story from Oct 2016: Parents in bitter battle over their child's gender: Father brands controversial transgender charity as ‘meddlers’ in yet ANOTHER case of a mother dressing her son, five, as a girl dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…

Whistleblowing Allegation: Corruption of Green Party Internal Democracy
I have today called for urgent, independent investigation into facts surrounding subversion of will of conference in taking of controversial motion on #DQSH last weekend #GPC22 👇
electshahrar.co.uk/corruption-of-… As an ordinary member, I write to blow the whistle on evidence of serious wrongdoing in the Green Party of England and Wales and I believe it to be both in the interest of the Party and the wider public interest to do so.

Remember grotesque contravention of @bindelj basic freedom of speech by @MyNottingham in June?
"Violence against women and girls:
Nottingham council apologises to Julie Bindel for unlawfully cancelling talk"
Big respect Julie for this win! 💪🏽♀️👏🏽👏⚖️❤️👇🏼
theguardian.com/society/2022/o… 👉 A city council has apologised to veteran feminist and lesbian activist Julie Bindel after cancelling a talk because of “the speaker’s views on transgender rights”.
👉 She ended up speaking in the library car park and at the time said she would be suing the council.

Green Party has just passed Late motion Solidarity with Drag Queen Story Time/Hour. Couple of excerpts below - from synopsis & one of action points. #DQSH #GPC22 Just to note a few points from debate. I spoke against motion on following grounds
👉 procedurally had not benefitted from full amendments & scrutiny process
👉 motion full of straw men, chiefly conflating far-right critics with others with justifiable concerns

Leaders Q&A have just been asked by member whether they will "unequivocally condemn gender critical belief as transphobic". #gpc22 Adrian's response *by far* most nuanced, opens by saying disnclined to speak in "slogans & soundbites" whilst agreeing with leaders on panel & this wasn't a criticism of them (v diplomatic). Then moves on to reference @thecassreview & to take account of evidence & safeguarding.

Challenging GPEW Deputy Leader Election 2022: Institutionalised Smear Campaigns, Rule Breaches & Hostile Environment 4 Gender Critical ♀️
Unfortunately I feel I must speak out against the legitimacy of the Deputy Leader contest. Part thread. Link to full 👉electshahrar.co.uk/challenge-to-d… I have raised my concerns with ERO and was told that results would not be announced today (7 Sept 2022) & this would give him extra time to consider my representations & consult with other officials.

When asked at deputy leader hustings tonight to name a union figure who inspired me, I chose Emmeline Pankhurst.

I said any of us who truly believed in workers rights to collective action should have been horrified at scenes of intimidation against women at Manchester statue. I'd expect Greens in public position to call out such behaviour not remain quiet.

If you think party failing to speak truth & justice on women's rights you can elect a deputy to redress that lack - in keeping with our deep green values for freedom of protest & equality for all.

Must read, challenging policy role & influence of @Mermaids_Gender in promoting gender-affirming experimental drugs for questioning, vulnerable kids looking for sanctuary. Fervour which Green pursued surgery for her own child cause for alarm. @jo_bartosch
spiked-online.com/2020/07/03/mer… "[CEO, Green] recalls how, as a boy, Jack was made to feel shame about his preference for ‘girly’ toys & clothes by his father, at one point asking his grandmother ‘can you buy me Barbie Rapunzel, but hide it because if mummy and daddy find it they’re going to take it away’."

Decent summary by outgoing Chair of report commissioned to capture EDI challenges of GPEW.

Recognition conflict around sex & gender has resulted in culture at odds with our values. Members should be asking GPEx candidates how they propose to engage.

greenworld.org.uk/article/drivin… However analysis arguably upside down with respect to cause & effect.

Conflict around sex/gender largely arisen *because* a culture of authoritarian intolerance & groupthink cancel culture has been allowed to predominate.

Chief suspects #nodebate & transphobic smear campaigns.

You know what's really sad is having people on here yesterday, who should know better, telling me I should have done more during local elections without even knowing what I did do.

We need to get to a place where we don't try to guilt trip our activists for "not doing enough". That's profoundly demotivating. Every hour a member dedicates is precious. I spent time in more than one local party, even if I didn't Tweet about it, & was thanked for it by local officers. That's Green way.

Full judgment Rosario Sanchez vs University of Bristol handed down today. Some points to follow in thread. 1chancerylane.com/wp-content/upl… Judge keen not to adjudicate on transgender debate as such but opens with a lazy definition:

"A person may identify their gender as different to their apparent biological sex assigned at birth. Thus a person born of male sex may identify as a woman and vice versa." (§ 15)

Excellent exposition from @MForstater @HJoyceGender on why conversion therapy Bill muddled, ill-judged & risks endangering children in particular. theguardian.com/society/2022/a… "Proposals [@guardian] endorse would make it harder for therapists to explore what may lie behind gender distress. Common underlying causes incl. stirrings of same-sex attraction, undiagnosed autistic-spectrum disorder, trauma from abuse &..living in sexist, porn-saturated world.

Indomitable @joannaccherry: "Women are particularly vulnerable in war because of their sex. This is because women are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence at the hands of men. That violence is sex-based and directed at women because of our biology. Sex matters." #IWD2022 "What you cannot define you cannot protect, and what you cannot name cannot be properly discussed and debated. That is why the stealthy erasure of sex-based language from our statute book and public and private policy making should be resisted."

Today's @thecassreview Interim Report for gender identity services for child & young people sets out:
👉 Lack of robust evidence base
👉 Need for more specialist services
👉 More comprehensive care, including psychological & social support
cass.independent-review.uk/publications/i…
#CassReview Link to full Interim Report cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/upl…
👉"The care of this group of children and young people is everyone’s business."

Insightful @MForstater "where it's necessary to be explicit about someone's sex, whether it's to do with collecting data, or sport, or crime, or enabling & recognising women, we have to be able to make distinction between male/female, men & women." 18'-48' bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Section on when she might conceivably, hypothetically misgender telling. Interviewer tried to make out Maya resorts to extreme scenarios that might be deemed offensive when using safeguarding as an example - but Maya brought her back to question she'd been logically asked. Sharp!

Packed workshops today on especially controversial motions, deftly chaired, with plenty of probing questions & points made. #GPC22

Straw polls on D07 Queerphobia Guidance fell convincingly - amended or unamended. A poorly worded motion which not even amendments could rescue. Workshop on G01 Developing an Intersectional Approach to Diversity (Ban members who signed @WDI_UK) fell overwhelmingly. #GPC22

Sex-Based Rights vs Cancel Culture
I am challenging an unlawful discriminatory and oppressive campaign that would have me removed as the Green Party of England and Wales Spokesperson for Policing and Domestic Safety. crowdjustice.com/case/sex-based… 1/24 I have done nothing wrong. I have stood by the principles and values of the Party for twenty years; nine years as a national Spokesperson, two of which as Deputy Leader. 2/24