Shahrar Ali
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Former Green Party Deputy Leader | ⚖️ Won Gender Critical discrimination case against GPEW in 2024, first belief discrimination case in politics |
Joined September 2011
♀️ BREAKING NEWS! ⚖️ GROUNDHOG DAY: Former Deputy Leader Instructs Lawyers to take GPEW to Court Second Time. 🧵 “In politics as in court, Green Party plays nothing if not dirty. We, however, play clean – Truth, as with justice, will continue to prevail.”.
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I have a problem with this level of religious advertising across length & breadth of Mile End Road, Whitechapel: "Trust in Allah: Give Zakat". These are public lampposts & public sphere must remain secular, without fear or favour to any particular religion or lack of faith.
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This week, following court spectacle of a male doctor in full DARVO mode, we peaked again. He defended his refusal to let a female nurse tend to her intimate hygiene needs without having to suffer & endure affront of his male gaze in women's changing room. We were left disgusted
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Manager of large pub/restaurant in Kings Cross having to contend with plumbing problem resulting in disabled & men's toilets out of action. He personally supervised male customers to female toilet to check vacant & to mind door. When asked why he didn't just temporarily designate.
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Two beautiful people sticking their necks out for fairness in sport. Real honour & privilege to meet legends Daley and Sharron. 💚 🏊♀️ 🏅
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Not sure what's more terrifying:.Totalitarian mob siding with repeated punching of 70 year old woman (pictured) thinking they are right side of history. Deafening silence of politicians to condemn this violent misogyny (with some in my own party either making light or condoning)
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👏 Go Naomi Cunningham! She brought her A-game, taking no prisoners, incisive & up to measure of this tribunal, which has consequence not just for her client but for patient safety & dignity. #IStandWithSandiePeggie
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God give me strength! This is such embarrassing BS. "People" who menstruate! Stop, Natalie, please stop this madness! Lack of clear sex-based language in health sector does tangible harm to patients. Plus it's really destroying our credibility & your own.
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♀️ JUDGMENT ⚖️ has landed! WE WON!! Wow! Just Wow! This is HUGE!! Our Gender Critical beliefs Are Worthy of Respect in A Political Party!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙏💚♀️💚♀️💚 #AliVsGPEW Please Tell the World 📣
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Does this mean we've also lost the minister for women who doesn't know what a woman is?
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Male doctor informed female nurse managing her menstrual bleeding that he had as much right to be there as she did (female changing rooms). Give me strength! Give us all strength!.
him. I turned my head towards my locker. I told DU that I felt it was unacceptable that he was in the female CR. I told him I was embarrassed and intimidated. And I didn't think he should have been in there. DU informed me that he had as much right to be there as I did.
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Isn't it deeply ironic that our PM can perform stunts with producers of Adolescence fictional drama to virtue signal his concern about incel ideology but when it comes to commending Supreme Court's landmark protection of women's single-sex spaces & condeming incitement to hate or.
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Male doctor, qualified & registered, point blank disagrees that he is male. How can we address this level of delusion in society, when it contradicts reality so grossly & in a doctor who needs to be able to treat conditions, many of which will be sex-conditioned?.
offence against their privacy. DU I disagree that I'm male. Y'll have to ask them how they experienced me. NC Re interactions w KS, It ws reasonable for u to get mgmt back up if problems.DU We agreed I cld use the CR, and expectation of it being discussed.
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That's an almighty U-turn by GMC following Health Secretary intervention. Disciplinary records of trans doctors ‘will not be kept from the public’.
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So, a braying mob - so sure of their cause they would hurl abuse & wear masks or balaclavas - harasses @MForstater @HJoyceGender & other women in Manchester yesterday. Yet Bragg sides with mob because women maintained their dignity & composure. We see you, Bragg. #misogyny
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I understand that some (state-funded) schools are being held hostage by pushy Muslim parents refusing to bring their kids into school on Eid day (Monday). This is wrong & headteachers should chalk them up as unauthorised absences. It's not a national holiday in UK.
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Recklessly - Green Party of England & Wales has today sought to "no fault" suspend me, pending investigation, on basis of a complaint I take to be wholly vexatious, in particular, for standing up for rights of WOMEN in sport not to be subjected to MALE violence in Olympic boxing
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Chilling. So much wrong with this decision & its justification hardly know where to begin:. "We do not share your beliefs and are not able to adhere to your requests and we have therefore decided we will not proceed with [withdraw] your surgery.". CEO, Princess Grace Hospital.
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In Brighton today, women finding themselves trapped by masked protestors chanting "fascist scum". I hope & expect all candidates to condemn these intimidation tactics. #Letwomenspeak
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Solidarity with @RosieDuffield1 tonight - a woman of high integrity & principle harassed by her own party for speaking out on women's sex-based protections & then some. I certainly know what it feels like when a party has badly lost its way.
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I am man, not woman. I'm incensed at the corruption of women's boxing @iocmedia. #SaveWomensSport XX ≠ XY
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@BluskyeAllison Let this be warning to all those employers, unincorporated associations or organisations who think they can get away with subduing, discriminating against or victimising honorable people for standing up for what's right & fair - or for expressing their gender critical belief! 👏.
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BREAKING: Without fanfare, without formal announcement Green Party has quietly but surely dissaffiliated from Stonewall. I was putting motions regularly to conference last four years to make this happen, but it's happened now anyway. We are not Stonewall party! 👏
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BREAKING: Second WIN in Court Today! @TheGreenParty Ordered by Judge to pay £90,000 in Claimant's costs on account of importance of this substantial Gender Critical discrimination WIN in February this year. Thank you everyone who made it happen! 💚 ♀️ ⚖️
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For how long are we going to tolerate this gaslighting, misrepresentative lying about male violence as if perpetrated by women from our national broadcaster? @BBCNews
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Maya Forstater, of human rights charity Sex Matters, said: ‘Sandie has been let down unforgivably by the RCN, which refused her request for legal assistance.’
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Dr Upton is bonkers & represents a live risk to patients on Emergency ward, some of whom will be directed to O&G or maternity. If a transwoman is female (apparently not just for him) then on his own schema what does that make a cis-female or cis-male? In order to make his.
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So let's get this straight - @nhsfife while fighting off a claim for unlawful discrimination & harassment from Sandie Peggie is pressing ahead with an internal disciplinary hearing next week against same claimant. This looks & feels like victimisation.
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Today, in a week that saw unfounded allegations of transphobia crumble under cross-examination in open court. ⚖️ I have lodged my claim against Green Party for unlawful discrimination, harassment & victimisation because I dared to express my gender critical views. #AlivsGPEW ♀️
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I honestly cannot fathom, but despair, what has become of society. A woman facing imprisonment for expressing "offensive" opinions based on her beliefs about sex and gender, then her family being targeted & terrorised while she awaits court. This is not justice; it's persecution.
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Just shows how selfless Sandie Peggie, suspended by a Fife hospital after objecting to sharing changing rooms with a trans woman, donates £38,500 funds gifted by her supporters in appreciation of her principled stand to charities instead .
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BREAKING: Green Party spokesman sues own party after sacking over transgender views. Shahrar Ali alleging discrimination of gender-critical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act, in what could be a landmark legal case. [link to full story, excerpts follow].
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I am utterly repulsed by them. Had you said to me, even 10 yrs ago, that at any point in history of our international movement a Green politician would want to oppose a comprehensive clinical review that resulted in banning prescription of dangerous experimental drugs on children.
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What I would give to hear a trans athlete say: . "You know what, I obv have an inbuilt male biological advantage against women but I want to win at all costs. To hell with fairness, I want my medal!". A little less mental gymnastics. Why do spectators play along with this?.
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Sex-Based Rights vs Cancel Culture.I am challenging an unlawful discriminatory and oppressive campaign that would have me removed as the Green Party of England and Wales Spokesperson for Policing and Domestic Safety. 1/24.
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Owen Jones fundamentally wrong in subjecting schoolgirl victim of bullying to trial by social media. If he genuinely had reason to doubt integrity of story he should have used his journalistic acumen to verify it *behind scenes* - & still he could.
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Tosser who tossed soup at KJK should be subjected to exemplary justice. @Keir_Starmer & left must condemn naked male aggression against women on UK streets now - designed to intimidate, subdue & instil fear of greater harm or escalation (e.g. acid attacks). @StandingforXX
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I'm neither going to retract nor apologise for saying:.1. Private clinics should be banned from supplying puberty blockers to minors. 2. Teaching gender identity ideology to 2yo's is harmful. 3. Unfair & dangerous for male boxers to be fighting women. In line with Party values.
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Really respect Badenoch for standing up for herself & challenging innuendo. She may have used unparliamentary language but definitely got there in end, "I will not have my name maligned by people making false statements about me that are not true!" 👏👇🏽.
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Dear @metpoliceuk - Acting Police Sergeant at Charing Cross police thinks:. "If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face!". should be acceptable under freedom of expression (1st slide). 👇 Please provide training under your own Incitement to Hatred guidance (2nd slide). 👇
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Why aren't Greens & more decent MPs calling out appalling tirade of verbal abuse directed at Miriam Cates MP last night by @lloyd_rm?. Misogyny at heart of our democratic chamber gets institutionalised when these shocking tantrums get free pass. #SolidaritywithCates #GRRBill #S35
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India Willoughby should be excluded from membership of Green Party - for so publicly denying & minimising Male Violence Against Women & Girls. Disgusting, despicable & disgraceful.
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So let's get this straight, Scottish Green Party have "nothing further to add" after enabling & actively encouraging this grotesque character in @rainbowgreens officer role for years, leading institutional harassment of myself & other Greens across border.
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Jesus wept! What it is it with NHS Fife?! Now we have a nurse, on oath, claiming they don't know if a swab test for sex could be affected by change of hair, makeup or clothes!! Give me strength!.
NC - it will tell you sex.ED - yes.NC - a cheek swab will tell you if body is m or F.ED - will give you DNA, individual to everyone.NC - will tell if M or F.ED - yes it's your unique identity.NC - those tests won't be changed by hair, make up, clothes.ED - I don't know, a nurse.
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I am absolutely astonished and astounded to hear about the latest JK Rowling hashtag. This kind of unabated obscene talk has consequences for the fabric of society and the individual affected. It has to stop. Respectful debate must be possible in our age.
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Last year I heard @ThePosieParker speak movingly of motherhood, with purpose & wit. Today she explains how she feared for her life when escaping frenzied mob in NZ, how her children could have lost their mother. We cannot tolerate those seeking to intimidate her or incite others.
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Dear @OwenJones84, I'm sure you must be equally affronted by these placards. This must not be part of "tide of history moving against one" to which you referred few days ago. Please condemn it loud & clear. Imperative all influencers across this politically divisive matter do so.
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BBC: Greens hit with £90,000 legal bill after discrimination case.The Green Party of England and Wales have been ordered to pay £90,000 to cover the costs of their former deputy leader, who won a discrimination case against them.
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My campaign to defend sex-based rights from cancel culture is striking a chord across the political spectrum & beyond & then some. Thank you @jk_rowling for the follow! A woman who knows. 💚♀️.
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Why oh why, in God's name, would anyone want to vote *against* making it *harder* for a male registered sex offender to hide their true identity? Who benefits? Sick. @RussellFindlay1 should have been commended for his commonsense precautionary amendments.
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Why did Lloyd Russell-Moyle & Owen Jones sound so alike this week? What do they have in common?
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Organisationally, you'd have to be pretty unhinged to want to expel a member who'd just won landmark discrimination case against you & for expressing their same protected belief. Then again it's pretty unhinged to want to advocate for puberty blocking experimental drugs for kids.
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Dear @SadiqKhan please condemn Pride London speaker yesterday who said:. "If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face!" to a cheering crowd.
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⚖️ Green Party of England & Wales heading for day of reckoning with me in court. I've been subjected to years unrelenting harassment, abuse & discrimination by network of officers & members for standing up for women’s sex-based rights & child safety from dangerous medicalisation.
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Imagine trying to have pub dinner with this balaclava-led hostility directed at you just yards away. "No TERFs on our Turf!"."No TERFs on our Turf!". Neither stunning nor brave. Certainly ain't progressive. Is targeted harassment & hate. Ugly. Must be called out & condemned.
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⚖️ Allison Bailey Wins!! Many congratulations! 👏🏽👏🏿💚.A warning to all those employers & associations who think they can get away with discrimination & harassment of right-thinking people simply for standing up for belief in biological sex. #AllisonBaileyWins @BluskyeAllison
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Bizarre that @BBCSport prepared to extensively debate ethics of Lyle running in 200m final with Covid - when did he know? what about exposure risk to others? - but unprepared to debate ethics of male boxer infiltrating female competition & exposing them to hazard.
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BREAKING: the Green Party of England and Wales is staring down the barrel of another court case! With what level of insanity would you expel (today) a member who just won an unlawful discrimination case against you & awarded £100k in costs & damages? Just two weeks ago 👇
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Fiery speech @ChrisDaviesLD pulling no punches, calling out impact upon impressionable youth of sex denialism, unfettered social contagion & failure of medical due diligence. Truth will cut through in end, once we've properly dispensed with no debate.
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BREAKING!! ⚖️♀️⚖️♀️⚖️♀️.The Green Party discriminated against former deputy leader Dr Shahrar AIi because of his gender critical beliefs, a court has ruled. 👇👇👇 #AlivsGPEW
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BREAKING: Green Party's first UK parliamentarian Robin Harper RESIGNS from @scottishgreens - citing their intransigence on "trans rights". He laments how he did not speak out internally- which just shows scale of toxicity & hostile #nodebate environment.
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Speechless. What has become of society when women campaigning against male violence directed at women & girls get subjected to such violence itself? Makes me feel so ashamed of our country sometimes. Something going badly wrong in education, in morality, in basic civility.
#MaleViolence. The man who assaulted me, twice from behind, in front of woman, mothers & horrified small children, was arrested. I made a full statement and will be seeking his prosecution. Im very shaken, but I’m ok. Normal service will resume…soon! X.
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How can we continue to tolerate this morally degenerate, misogynistic crap being validated on our screens by national broadcaster? Talentless crap with zero redeeming features.
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It absolutely must be possible in democratic society to be able to put questions about best practice management of care in rape and domestic abuse refuges - without fear of losing one's job. This is what I mean about the need for negotiation where claims of groups may vary.
I've been sacked as Co-chair of the Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board. By email. After eight years. Story in today's Times.
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This week Sian Berry's grotesque advocacy in parliament of puberty blockers for kids & her attack on a medically due diligent ban went viral for all the wrong reasons, her fanatical ideology on full public display, etched into Hansard for perpetuity. Berry has single-handedly
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Brilliant tour de force interview by @HJoyceGender! 👏💚👏💚.Despite @BBCNuala.constant reference to "the listener", as if something was particularly unclear, Helen just cut through all smoke & mirrors in a way we have grown to love & expect. 1/2.
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Has anybody come across a single ideologue last 48 hrs who has actually apologised for spreading false suicide risk narratives about child patients prohibited from receiving puberty blockers? It's as if they really truly do not care. Their denial & shamefulness knows no bounds.
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Moral intuition something wrong about male parent inducing lactation, through hormones & other drugs, to administer "breastfeeding" to baby applies whether man or transwoman. How fair on baby to try & mimic motherhood to this degree? They can't consent. Nor do we know milk safe.
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Struggling to make sense of horrors of world, but can someone explain to me this double standard today where perpetrators both trans:.👉Trans-identifying male offender in Calderdale referred to as woman. 👉Trans-identifying female mass murderer in Nashville referred to as woman.
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Give me strength! Gets worse on rabbit-in-headlights evasiveness. Carla completely refuses to say what she means by "living as a woman" - hand waving, desperate to change topic. If it wasn't such risible dereliction of political nous, would be laughable.
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📣 WE WON!! “I find that by removing him as spokesperson in a procedurally unfair way, GPEx discriminated against Dr Ali because of his [gender critical] protected belief contrary to section 101 of the Equality Act.” (Judge Hellman, 250, p. 56) #AliVsGPEW
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Welcome to doublespeak thought police land, where one of few journalists prepared to state bleeding obvious gets villified for doing so. "Transwomen, in other words males," is all he said.
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Appalled to learn of hate campaign to disrupt & intimidate women at Bristol @Womans_Place_UK meeting. Women, many of whom experienced or fought to combat male violence against women & girls want to talk about birth, motherhood & obstetric violence. Condemn this #CancelCulture.
Climate justice = trans rights!.Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) are not welcome in our city. Up for standing against them? Meet outside the Wills Memorial Building at 6pm today (Tues 3rd). Note that this is not an XR event.
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These NHS HR clowns are going to face the music following their clear victimisation: "after a four-minute meeting with a manager last week, Jennifer Melle was suspended, ordered to collect her belongings and escorted out of St Helier Hospital in tears.".
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To have a mildly gender critical convert as Health minister is proving it could be a half-decent appointment as far as child clinical safety is concerned.
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Some people in my party appear to be very pissed off that I'm receiving & accepting media requests. Or would they have me gagged too?. Sorry to disappoint, but you better get used to it.
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Unbelievable that @LonGreenParty member speaking tonight of her experience of domestic abuse & even rape has been called "stupid cow" by someone who presumably didn't realise their mic was on. We are constantly being told about safe spaces where multiple breaches of code conduct.
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⚖️ Tail end of my speech, which seems to have struck a chord, plus thanks to my incredible legal team & beautiful family. "Integrity will overcome dirty politics. Truth will prevail over lies. The pen is mightier than the sword. And, yes, sex is immutable." ♀️ 👇
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Oh dear! "Non-trans lesbian women"!! On @bbclaurak @carla_denyer making up categories of women by the minute & showing what contempt she has for Supreme Court judgment & its protection of lesbian rights. @AllianceLGB
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Crazy almost comical convo with agent from NHS test & trace who wanted to know of my young child, "how would they describe their gender?". Me: You mean what is their sex? What are the options?.Agent: male/female/other. Me: What do you mean other?.Agent: You should know its 2021.
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Hi @AdrianRamsay great to debate with you at hustings tonight. You said as a principle that gender identity is enshrined in Equality Act. One needs to be careful not to conflate gender identity with gender reassignment - the latter of which is the protected characteristic.
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Brilliant @andrewdoyle_com on being accused of being homophobic, "I'm definitely not homophobic. Most of the men I've slept with have been gay." 🤣👏 #battlefest
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Solidarity with @wesstreeting for countenancing, through his legal dept, puberty blockers ban being put on permanent basis. All right thinking persons will defend this on child safeguarding groubds alone. Abuse & vitriol he's now receiving cause for shame upon those festering it.
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Short thread 🧵on #Mermaids, Aimee Challenor & Green Party. In 2016, Challenor, then prominent in our party, organised an open letter to attack Daily Mail for running a story questioning role of Mermaids in a dispute between parents on social transitioning of their child.
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Long overdue! Cross-party political partners in crime, standing up for women’s sex-based rights. Last seen conversing about cancel culture, who would have believed it! ❤️♀️💚 @RosieDuffield1 @ShahrarAli
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What Is A Woman?. Statement by Shahrar Ali, 20 July 2020. 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. (1/5). #WhatIsAWoman
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@jk_rowling @PompeySteph If it ain't politicians putting their pathetic virtue signalling woke brownie points ahead of actual risks of harm to human beings — betraying their utter contempt for safeguarding — it's their rabbit-in-headlights refusal to answer straight question in denial of consequences.
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Absolutely stunned & shocked at sheer reckless endangerment Billy Bragg inciting. Breathtakingly unhinged & appaling to continue misdirecting hate towards @ThePosieParker - even after he can see consequences of doing so laid bare in #LetWomenSpeakAuckland.
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You know you've sleepwalked into an authoritarian state when Mayor & other politicians not only refuse to condemn clear violations of basic canons of civil society but authorities themselves trip over themselves to find legal mental gymnastics that would condone not criticise it.
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♀️ YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT! “Dr Ali also seeks a declaration that he has been subjected to unlawful discrimination. I grant the declaration sought, although it does not obviate the need for damages.” (Judge Hellman, 274, p.65) #AliVsGPEW
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Right side of history lesson no brainer:. I'd rather accept a speaking invitation from LGB Alliance In 2022 (an honour) than have my name indelibly stuck to an open letter defending #Mermaids malpractice in 2016 (organised by disgraced Aimee Challenor). #nobrainer #nodebate.
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If you repeat a lie often enough . such is regressive tactic of authoritarian groupthink cancel culture. But it is important lies are challenged, as regularly as necessary. LGB Alliance is not a hate group.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
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@jk_rowling @KEBrightbill Hats off to JK for consistently standing up to lying ideologues who will just make stuff up to suit their purposes. Lies unchallenged can take on life of their own & exhausting though business of confronting can be, we all benefit from truth; liar, too. #IStandWithJKRowling 💚.
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Put aside all politics & think about human impact. Husband reported as leaving wife & family "devastated" after relationship of 19 yrs. Then adopts *same surname* as wife!! Isn't this grotesque harassment that no party should be enabling once in know?
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UPDATE on Kafka Party: Surprise, Surprise! Today I've received notification of a two-year expulsion from the Green Party (plus other Kafkaesque conditions on readmission). They've sat on this decision for 4 weeks (in violation of our own rules), after already having been forced.
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