Green Party candidate suspended for agreeing ‘Eddie Izzard is a man’

The Green Party has suspended its Sheffield Central candidate amid allegations of ‘transphobia’.

Alison Teal was reported to her local branch after she raised concerns about Eddie Izzard being allowed to use the ladies’ toilets at a Labour Party event in Sheffield.

Earlier this year, Dr Shahrar Ali launched legal action against the Green Party when he was sacked as its Policing and Domestic Safety spokesman, allegedly for defending women’s sex-based rights.

Dignity

Teal tweeted her support for an article in The Critic written by Jean Hatchet, in which the Sheffield Labour Party member had protested about Eddie Izzard being “whisked into the women’s toilet” before a social club ‘fundraiser’ in the City.

Hatchet complained: “The loss of women’s rights starts with looking the other way for an Eddie Izzard and ends with a society that doesn’t flinch at placing a male sex offender in jail with women.”

She added: “Not all trans identified men are violent offenders, but some are. Because of this we must exclude all men from those spaces designated as single-sex for the safety, privacy and dignity of women.

“We don’t need to make exceptions for Eddie Izzard or any other celebrity. Or any other man, because Eddie Izzard is a man.”

Powerful piece by @JeanHatchet “The loss of women’s rights starts with looking the other way for an Eddie Izzard and ends with a society that doesn’t flinch at placing a male sex offender in jail with women.” Serious issues we must discuss.@SheffieldGreens https://t.co/zpEaSUhJV3

— Alison Teal 🍃💚🍃 (@alisonclareteal) October 1, 2022

‘Sex-based rights’

In response to Teal’s approval of the article, five Sheffield City Green Party Councillors all stated: “I will not campaign for any candidate who discriminates against trans people.”

One said: “People are entitled to their personal beliefs, but they are not entitled to use the Sheffield Green Party as a springboard to launch a gender critical campaign against a trans public figure”.

Teal commented: “Using the disciplinary process to manage differences of opinion rather than engage in discussion is troubling and disappointing.”

Dr Ali commented: “Our party will find itself in an increasingly precarious position if we dare not stand up for brilliant candidates up and down the country whose only ‘crime’ is belief in female sex and defence of women’s sex-based rights.”

Christian values

Last month, former BBC journalist David Campanale revealed that he intends to pursue legal action as he faces being removed as a Liberal Democrat candidate over his Christian values.

In an interview with The Christian Institute, David Campanale spoke of the “direct harassment and hostility” he received from activists within the Sutton and Cheam Liberal Democrats constituency party who have pushed for his deselection.

He warned of a movement in Britain that wants to “undermine the Christian foundations of our constitution, that wants to remove all references to Christianity from the way in which our national life is guided and built”.