Changes to legal team

These cases need eye-watering sums of money to progress and reach trial. Through this crowdfunder, £37, 843 has been raised from 1,247 pledges, many of you giving more than once. I cannot thank you enough for your donations, alongside incredible messages of support, publicly and privately. I have also put my life's savings into this case and my biggest headache is financial.

My legal representation has been superlative, to date, but for various reasons I have decided to make some changes. Please now continue to support this case on the following page:

Worthy of Respect in a Political Party

Six months on

This discrimination case is going the distance. I have been targeted with impunity even since my removal as a spokesperson and this only strengthens my resolve to see justice done for my earlier mistreatment. I want to be clear, this case it not so much about me personally but it is about:

1. The right of women to be able to defend their access to same-sex spaces or provision of services when crucial to their dignity or safety.
2. The right of children to be protected from prescription of puberty blockers without medical due diligence, leading to a potential pathway of life-altering drug dependency for life.
3. The right of women to be able to self-organise, or congregate, without fear of intimidation, silencing or cancellation.

Morally and politically my determination is as strong as ever. Fighting injustice is not something I can just switch off. It's in my bloodstream. The recent legal victories of Maya Forstater and Allison Bailey are highly relevant to this case as they concern discriminatory treatment in professional settings.

My case, if successful, will lay down a legal marker that discrimination against political representatives for their gender critical protected belief is not tolerable. Given the importance of political debate to informing public policy and driving good legislation we must confront and overcome the authoritarian attempt to silence and intimidate.

Thank you, with every fibre of my being, for your continued support for this claim to defend the right of every politician to be free from discrimination for expressing their protected belief in the reality of biological sex.

Speaking live on Free Speech nation about my case, 10 July 2022:

On 5 Feb 2022, I was publicly removed as Green Party national spokesperson for Policing and Domestic Safety after vocally standing up for justice for all, including, for daring to defend the sex-based rights of women, sounding the alarm about safeguarding of children, and for defending the right of women to be able to self-organise without fear of intimidation, harassment or cancellation.

This landmark case would defend the right of spokespersons and representatives in all political parties to be able to express their gender critical protected beliefs without being subjected to intimdation, discrimination or cancellation, such as I and others have had to suffer and endure.

We must not have to tolerate such abuse and attacks when calling out, say, the zealous erasure of women's sex-based rights in talk or when calling for the absolute necessity of medical due diligence before putting children on a pathway of gender-affirming, life-altering healthcare, for life. Rarely have children been so at risk of exposure to online harms and danger. They need us to step up and protect them always from the risk of making poor decisions.

Meeting with Sharron Davies and Daley Thompson to discuss the impact of transgender athletes on women's sporting competition.

Surely we have had our fill of spineless politicians, especially of the left, adopting rabbit-in-headlights mode? Whether in their refusal to answer straight questions on the material difference between sex and gender identity or the vital importance of respecting that difference in life and law - in policing, prisons, schools, healthcare or sport, to name just a few areas.

The Green Party will be defending the claim. Therefore, this case will be going the distance, as I have always been prepared for. My legal team are busy at work drafting and preparing the next round of legal matters. I have accordingly raised the stretch target and please accept my assurance that every pound you generously pledge will be spent wisely and in single-minded pursuit of victory in this case.

My case is a compelling one, which the added forensic scrutiny of a trial of the sort we have seen in Maya Forstater and Allison Bailey, will only help amplify the full horror of the discriminatory treatment I have had to endure.

No mass movement worthy of the name has ever succeeded without women at its forefront - and yet just last month a gender critical member was verbally abused at an internal meeting by another member. She was told to "Shut up, you stupid cow!", in front of everybody from behind a veil of webinar anonymity (but has since identified themselves to our authorities). We must overcome this vicious environment to be an all-inclusive party, all the better to be able to face the collective existential challenge of the climate emergency.

Your response, to date, has been phenomenal and I absolutely would not be able to progress this case without you. Please continue to support my legal case by donating to our legal fund and by circulating this appeal, for the sake of the best of us in politics, now and in the future.

Thank you, with every fibre of my being, for your continued support!

Shahrar xx

Thank you, with every fibre of my being, for your continued support! I would not have been able to progress this case, alongside my legal team, without your generous donation!

Yesterday, 18 March 2022, was a key milestone in my case. I lodged my claim against the Green Party for unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation for daring to express my gender critical views.



This case is landmark: if successful, we will set down a legal marker that discrimination against members of political parties for holding gender critical protected beliefs will not be tolerated. Call it: Worthy of Respect in a Democratic Party.

I have consistently fought for the equality of all across society and strongly advocate for mature, respectful debate where conflicts in the accommodation of rights may be thought to reasonably exist and require negotiation. It's vitally important for proper functioning of representative democracy that debate can happen where debate is necessary. And, by God, it is necessary!

Lodging the claim has been a costly exercise, as will be taking this case to trial. My legal team has been phenomenal in every way and I can assure you that every pound you may choose to donate will be, or will have been, wisely spent.

You can hear me interviewed live recently by Andrew Doyle on Free Speech Nation on the foundations of my legal case and my determination to combat authoritarian abuse in politics.



Support Shahrar Ali in his fight to combat authoritarian bullying in politics, stronger safeguards for children and for the rights of women! Please donate to his legal battle.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for supporting my case to defend sex-based rights from cancel culture. Your generous donation has already been put to work, enabling my legal team to get on with preparing and progressing the case.

On 5 Feb 2022, as feared, the Green Party Executive committee did remove my Spokesperson role. This was announced by the Party Chair on Twitter.

A blogger astutely summed up my thought crimes:

"And what exactly are his views? Just what is he guilty of? Guilty of defining what a woman is in biological terms; guilty of speaking out against the harassment and abuse faced by JK Rowling, Rosie Duffield, and Kathleen Stock; guilty of arguing that female rape victims should have the right to request to be examined by someone of the same sex; guilty of proposing a party policy that called for better safeguards in prescribing puberty blockers to children; guilty of being concerned about Stonewall’s lobbying practices and the way it has been misrepresenting the Equality Act.

"Those crowing about his removal on social media seem to think that being sued for discrimination will be a good look for the party. I’ve a strong suspicion they’re going to be in for a shock."

We had some excellent coverage in the Telegraph at the weekend. You can read the full story here Green Party spokesman sues after being sacked for transgender views (or click image below).

My solicitor, Shazia Khan, a partner at Cole Khan Solicitors, said my suspension was “a targeted act of unlawful victimisation”, and was quoted in the article:

"My client has commenced pre-action protocol in claims of harassment, victimisation and direct discrimination contrary to the Equality Act 2010 against the Green Party of England & Wales,” she told The Telegraph.

“Dr Ali has been subject to a deliberate, coordinated, and strategic targeting because of his gender critical beliefs. He is vocal in support of women’s rights and the use and misuse of language in relation to sex and gender.”

As I write, over 700 people have backed the case and we have raised over £17,000. Thank you so much for your support!

This is a cross-party political and non-party political campaign, to which all are united in our shared concerns about the threat to women's sex-based rights and to child safeguarding, too.

Whilst I don't like to have to ask for money - please know that every extra pound you may wish to put is going towards this necessary legal battle and that I'm in this for the long haul. Please do whatever you can to promote knowledge of my case. Here is a form of words you can share among your networks (or feel free to use your own):

Support Shahrar Ali in his fight to combat authoritarian bullying in politics, stronger safeguards for children and for the rights of women! Please donate to his legal battle here:

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/sex-based-rights-vs-cancel-culture/