A former spokesman for the Green Party has said he intends to sue the organisation after he was dismissed for defending women’s sex-based rights.
Dr Shahrar Ali claims he was sacked as the Party’s Policing and Domestic Safety spokesman following complaints by party activists for his criticism of radical gender ideology.
Dr Ali has launched legal action against the party, claiming discrimination under the Equality Act on the basis of his belief in the reality of biological sex.
Indisputable facts
In 2020, Dr Ali said in a tweet: “A woman is commonly defined as an adult human female and, genetically, typified by two XX chromosomes.
“These facts are not in dispute nor should they be in any political party.”
Last year, he initiated a party motion on Twitter calling for young people confused about their gender to be protected from private clinics exploiting an “NHS Moratoria on the Prescription of Puberty Blockers”.
He has also posted comments online in defence of JK Rowling and Professor Kathleen Stock after they were bullied for expressing the view that men cannot become women.
Cancelled
The Sunday Telegraph reported that, as a result, Dr Ali was subjected to an internal investigation by the party and subsequently removed from his role last month.
In response, he told the paper that it was necessary in politics to allow those “who want to debate or negotiate their rights to be left free to do so without unreasonable interference or fear of cancellation”.
Dr Ali’s legal representative explained that her client has been subject “to a deliberate, coordinated, and strategic targeting because of his gender critical beliefs” and his support of women only spaces.
Last year an Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld tax consultant Maya Forstater’s claim that holding to the belief that biology determines whether a person is a man or a woman is protected under the equality law.
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