The Green Trans Case By Richard Miller (London)

Dr Shahrar Ali, who was formerly the UK Greens’ spokesman on policing and domestic safety, was sacked last year for violating the part’s code of practice. Did he deny the climate change religion? No, he said what most human beings believe, that a woman is an adult human female. This is contrary to trans philosophy which sees such claims as “binary,” for women in their paradigm have penises. Men can give birth too.  Dr Ali has taken the sacking issue to a civil court, alleging discrimination; he is non-white as well, another issue thrown into the case. The trans issue now decides political careers, and is even more intense than the race issue, even though 2021 census figures indicate that less than 100,000 people in the UK had a trans identity.

So, is Dr Ali right about the sexes being binary? The main counter-argument not based upon postmodern relativism (which undermines all knowledge anyway, including knowledge about Left-wing things) is based upon the existence of intersexes, people having both male and female sexual characteristics. The proportion of these people in the population is thought to be around 0.018 percent of the population. That hardly seems to undermine the generalisation that males and females exist.

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“How did the Greens become so focused on trans rights that they’ve ended up in court? The question is at the heart of a landmark action brought by the party’s former deputy leader, Dr Shahrar Ali, which is being heard this week. In what is believed to be the first civil case of its kind, he is claiming he suffered discrimination, hostility and victimisation because of his belief in biological sex. 

Ali was sacked last year as the Greens’ spokesman on policing and domestic safety after he was accused of breaking the party’s code of conduct. He was told that his “decision to champion a highly controversial position in the trans rights debate” was incompatible with the role. His offence? Arguing that sex is immutable, an opinion shared by most human beings who have ever lived. 

He even believes — pause for gasps of horror — that a woman is an adult human female, and issued a statement to that effect when he ran for leader three years ago. That such statements can be characterised as “highly controversial” demonstrates how radically opinion within political parties — beyond just the Greens — has shifted in little more than a decade. 

Politicians now say ridiculous things with straight faces, such as denying that only women have a cervix (Sir Keir Starmer) and claiming that some women have a penis (Starmer and the Lib Dem leader, Sir Ed Davey). The Labour leader has backtracked, acknowledging that a woman is an adult female, but the Lib Dems are as heavily influenced by trans activists as ever. The party attracted widespread ridicule this week when it emerged that its annual conference will vote on a motion stating that “menstruation is not just a women’s issue”.

People can believe whatever they like, but Ali’s case highlights what he calls a “fanatical clampdown on legitimate debate”. There have always been factions and disagreements within political parties, but the hostility faced by members with gender-critical views is unprecedented. During the Labour leadership contest in 2020, most of the candidates signed a “pledge” threatening members who hold “transphobic” views with expulsion. 

Accusations of “transphobia” are now enough to damn a political career. People only have to “like” a mildly gender-critical social media post to face demands for a grovelling apology. The situation is all the more remarkable following the release of figures by the Office for National Statistics in January,  showing that fewer than 100,000 people identified as trans in the 2021 census. That is 0.2% of the population, yet the issue of trans rights is at the forefront of titanic battles in just about every political party.

Ali argues that his beliefs are protected in law following the successful outcome of Maya Forstater’s case in 2021, which established her right to express her gender-critical views. The Green Party says it will “vigorously” defend its position in court, insisting that it is proud of its support for the “trans community”. Labour and the Lib Dems will be watching with interest, not to mention anxiety, as the right to free speech in politics — something most of us thought was decided years ago — is debated in court.”