An award-winning Yorkshire Green Party Parliamentary candidate is “poised” to take legal action against her own party after being suspended for more than a year in regard to her views on transgender issues.
The potential legal action follows a similar case already being pursued by former Green Party deputy leader Dr Shahrar Ali who claims he faced discrimination over his “gender-critical” beliefs.
Ms Teal said that prior to being selected as a candidate in September 2022, she had been asked about her views on sex and gender at a party hustings and gave a clear answer.
“My answer was sex is an immutable characteristic, biological and determined by our genetic make-up and that gender is a social construct. Given gender is a social construct I don’t think you should be in the business of confusing the two.
“No one was perturbed when I said it.”
She said she was selected ahead of three other candidates by local members a few weeks later but was then told there was “disquiet” about her selection at a national level.
No press launch was organised for her candidacy and on October 10, 2022, five local Sheffield Green councillors each posted a graphic which did not name Ms Teal but said they would not campaign for any candidate “who discriminates against trans people”.
She said: “I read it and thought, ‘No neither would I’. I was tempted to tweet I wouldn’t support a transphobic candidate either. I almost regret that I didn’t.
Ms Teal said she hopes that legal action can be avoided through a decision being made on her case but is preparing to take the party to court on the grounds that it is discriminating against members who believe sex and gender are not the same thing.
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Thanks for such straight unalloyed unsentimental decency and courage in every statement.
Have stopped voting green at same time (contradictorally)when begun sending bits of money for sharar ali’s case ( around £600 ish)now alison teale continues the struggle without having asked to be victimised….the bullies are always cowards so greens should finally give up the ghost and close the shop. Push labour to be green….after all most green reps already failed us some years ago when accepting corbyn as their default position against the tories
in spite of c’s pro iran pro milosowicz pro assad and pro various other racists/rapists politics. I spent years convincing people to vote green. It’s over. Radical feminism…materialist feminism…really is the clearest ideology and reality as it has been since 1969(for me) in spite of being a man not a woman.