Former Deputy Leader Instructs Lawyers to take Green Party to Court a Second Time for Unlawful Gender Critical Discrimination

I need your help to meet the Green Party of England and Wales in court again! The extremist gender identity authoritarian mob simply cannot go unchallenged. You do not need to care about the future of the Green Party to recognise the dangers of allowing a political association – one responsible, no less, for procuring primary legislators for election – to break the law and to continue to do so with impunity once found guilty.

Landmark GC discrimination case in Politics

In February 2024, I won my claim for unlawful discrimination against the Green Party after they removed me, two years earlier, as a front bench Justice Spokesperson (Ali vs GPEW). It had already been established by Forstater at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, in 2021, that belief in sex realism was Worthy of Respect in a Democratic Society. In my 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. The Green Party had breached that threshold.

Following my appointment as a national spokesperson, I was subjected to an unrelenting campaign of harassment, led by Sian Berry and others, that culminated in my unjust removal. Judge Hellman found that the Party had produced no evidence to warrant my removal; they had breached procedural fairness in doing so; and had discriminated against me because of my gender critical belief (Shahrar Ali wins 'gender critical' court battle against Green Party, BBC, 9 Feb 2024). The Party expended vast sums (I would estimate £400,000) to defend the case and lost. They had to pay damages and, at a subsequent hearing, I was also awarded 60% of my costs, too (Greens hit with £90,000 bill after discrimination case, BBC, 13 Sep 2024).

Unlawful Discrimination since the Win

I remained an active member throughout those proceedings, able to contest elections internally and externally (such as the London Assembly). However, in August 2024, the Green Party subjected me to two sets of complaints, concurrently – each based on my sex realist statements on social media. They subsequently notified me of two types of sanction, purporting to both suspend and exclude me, simultaneously, which had the effect of removing the rights associated with my membership in a targeted act of overkill.

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!

Persecuted for my stance on Puberty Blockers and Age-inappropriate educational materials

In the first set, the Party heard four complaints against me, each alleging “transphobia”, suddenly accelerated to a disciplinary hearing after they reversed their decision to undertake a proper investigation first. The allegation central to the complaints was that I had somehow compared gender identity to schizophrenia. I did, however, compare the age-inappropriateness of wanting to teach a two-year old the concept of transgender identity to the inappropriateness of wanting to teach schizophrenia, to illustrate relative complexity of ideas. I argued, and still maintain, no reasonable person would want to teach either of those things to that age and I criticised Stonewall for pushing their ideological agenda down the throats of unwitting kids.

I was also disciplined for seeking to bring a motion to conference, in 2021, that would have banned GenderGP from dispensing puberty blockers in the UK. Instead of being commended for my foresight in anticipating the risk of harm to children, as subsequently evidenced by the Cass recommendations and the PB moratorium on NHS and private providers, I received a two-year exclusion from the Party and five-year ban on standing for all internal and external positions upon readmission.

Disciplined for Criticising Imane Khelif in Women's Boxing

In August 2024, the Party suspended me on an emergency “no-fault basis” following a further complaint from one of the earlier complainants. This one was to do with my criticism of the obscene spectacle of the International Olympics Committee granting Imane Khelif, whom I described as male and correctly attributed sexed pronouns to match, entry into the women’s boxing competition. I regarded the consequences for fairness and safety of female competitors as grotesque. According to the disciplinary referral group, convened by an officer who had publicly boasted about wanting to remove me from the Party, “There is no justification for presuming that she [sic. Imane Khelif] is male. No evidence.” Anybody who has followed reports into Khelif’s sex eligibility tests, will know this to be a demonstrably unsafe assumption. I was suspended for “misgendering” Khelif even though I had correctly sexed him; and Khelif has confirmed that he does not identify as transgender.

Procedural Unfairness on Kafkaesque Scale

As Gandhi once said, the means is the ends in the making. Justice is a perfect example of both means and ends; just as procedural justice subverted is justice denied. As with the first case, I believe my legal team will be able to compellingly argue that I have been subjected to gross abuse of disciplinary process by agents of the Green Party, acting in a coordinated effort to subdue the lawful expression of my gender critical belief within and outside the party. The examples of procedural abuse are legion – from refusal of officers with clear conflicts of interest to recuse themselves to convening inquorate hearings and playing fast and loose with disciplinary standing orders. When the time comes, I will press for the court hearings to be live streamed so that the fanatical rot of the Green Party and their mob perpetrators can be fully exposed to the electors.

The Party is currently denying the timely supply of my personal data that would probably assist me in defending myself against the onslaught of abuse of disciplinary process. In October 2024, I made a data subject access request: six months on this has still not been supplied, despite their repeat promises that it would be.

Appeal for Funds

I was deeply moved by the groundswell of moral and financial support for my first legal case. I cannot overstate my indebtedness to everybody's generosity, however small or large your donations, often on a repeat or regular basis. I faced financial ruin, and significant hardship, over the course of the last legal fundraising campaign.

I need your support again now, please. The Green Party has become a morally bankrupt imposter of its former self – who would:

1. Cheer on effective mutilation of children’s bodies, despite Cass;
2. Refuse to condemn balaclava-clad incitement to hatred of women by TRA fanatics on marches that they would themselves sponsor;
3. Abandon all reason when it comes to the protection of single-sex spaces for women and same-sex attracted lesbian associations.

The Green Party's disinformation around the Supreme Court ruling has been as contemptible as has been their denial of the reasons for my court victory.

The Green Party is playing a dangerous game. They have inflicted significant detriment upon me already – preventing me from attending conference last year to move a motion on Cass and seeking to stop me from standing for the London Assembly or a future leadership election this year (in 2021, I garnered 21% of first preference votes). The fanatics are terrified that I could win a leadership election on the back of a court victory and among a membership that is becoming increasingly wised up to the authoritarian intoxication. No longer a serving spokesperson, they would be even harder pushed to justify my exclusion on such disproportionate terms. A second court win against them could cost them bankruptcy.

Can You help me Raise £10,000 in May?

I am initially seeking £10,000 over the next two weeks. This will enable me to fully engage my legal team to complete an objective assessment of my chances and home in on the best legal strategy. I would expect a Letter Before Action and Particulars of Claim to follow shortly thereafter.

I have instructed Doyle Clayton, one of the most formidable discrimination firms on the circuit, engaging the services of James Murray and Peter Daly. I have extraordinary confidence in my counsel, Jeffrey Jupp KC, in bringing to bear his power of legal persuasion and political insight. He was able to face down two wrecking applications from the Green Party, before commanding every argument at trial and the costs hearing.

In politics as in court, the Green Party plays nothing if not dirty. We, however, play clean – because the truth, as with justice, will continue to prevail.

Caption/Credit: Shahrar Ali Judging a Debating Matters panel March 2025: House of Lords 2025/Roger Harris