At the end of my last article about the sorry state of the party, I ended by saying I was seriously considering whether I wanted to remain as a member. Turns out I didn’t need to bother resigning — soon after, I received notice that I had been suspended from the party. My crime was my previous article which revealed, based on their own legal guidance, that the Green Party has been illegally discriminating against members with Gender Critical beliefs.
Of course, if my claims had been false there might have been some justification for action against me. But we now know that I was correct — the party has been unlawful. This was confirmed in an important court judgement released last week (9th Feb 2024).
Shahrar Ali is a significant figure in the Green Party. He was deputy leader from 2014-2016, and in June 2021 he was appointed as the party spokesperson on policing matters. However he is also significant because he is one of the few leading figures who has spoken out against the gender identity ideology that has taken over large parts of the party.
You can see the full judgement for yourself, and I don’t think any fair person could read that and not conclude that Shahrar had been discriminated against on the basis of his beliefs.
So what does this all mean for the Green Party? Its immediate problem is that there are a number of other cases in the pipeline from women who have allegedly faced even worse treatment than Shahrar and have been expelled or suspended.
Assuming the party somehow survives the coming cases, well — what then? I think it faces an existential choice. Some in the party have already taken the message of the judgement as being tacit approval for a final purge of all GC members. They believe that if they get the right procedures in place they can then expel anyone who doesn’t sign up to all the tenets of their ideology and make the Green Party pure.
I don’t write this expecting to persuade any of the self-proclaimed Trans Rights Activists in the party. But if you’re a member who wants the party to survive in some form then I urge you to get involved and put pressure on the party to see sense.
Source: How the Greens blackened their name | Nathan Williams | The Critic Magazine