A ray of hope for ‘greens in exile’?

The Supreme High Court is to finally decide on “what is a woman ? “

As long as the Equality Act of 2010 remains unclear as to its definition of a “woman”, trans activists and gender ideologues in the Green Party will continue to feel justified and at liberty to discriminate against members who hold the view that sex is biological and immutable and that trans rights cannot eradicate women sex based rights.

A number of key Employment Tribunals cases of unfair dismissal have been won by women over the past 5 years because of their “belief” under the Equality Act 2010 that sex is biological.  Former Deputy Leader and Spokesperson Shahar Ali also won his ground breaking case against the Green Party on the same legal basis as would be applied to political parties.

However, a belief is not a fact and Greens are, in principle at least, supposed to always go with the facts. That is what ought to make the party unique and distinguish it from all other parties.

That is also why a record number of voters who care about the future of our planet did put their trust in the Green Party at the 2024 General Election by electing, not one, but four Green MPs.

As strange as it may seem in this 21^st century, a definition of “woman” however still needs to be affirmed in UK law.

This is the reason why Stonewall’s inspired policy RR530 on trans rights adopted by the Green Party at its Conference in 2016 which declares that  “transwomen are women, transmen are men ….” gave the confidence to identity politics trans activists to embark on their capture of the party’s instruments of governance with the aim of turning the party into the champion of the transgender movement.

Armed with their own and deliberately ambiguous definition of a “woman” whereby sex and gender are one and the same, transactivists then proceeded to put in place a battery of new clauses within the Party’s Code of Conduct so as to facilitate their purge of members who do not share the view that sex and gender as the same.

But thanks to “ For Women of Scotland”, there may finally be a ray of hope for all biological women across the UK and “Greens in Exile” in particular who have been suspended or expelled  as deemed to have breached any one clause listed in the 7 pages long “Guidance to Identify Queerphobia”.

One such clause which is deemed to warrant disciplinary action, for example, and listed under Misrepresenting and Excluding Trans Peopple on page 6 states says: ” Claiming, implying or insinuating that transpeople should not be able to participate in sports as the gender they know themselves to be, due to a perceived advantage, only due to birth assignment not matching gender identity”. Members may recall transgender swimmer Lia Thomas who lost a legal battle in June 2024 against the governing body for World Aquatics….

The news that on 24^th November 2024, Justices Lord Reed, Lord Hodge, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Rose, and Lady Simler from the Supreme High Court will consider an Appeal from ‘For Women of Scotland’ should therefore make interesting reading.

The Appeal consists in challenging the lawfulness of statutory guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers which has the effect that a full Gender Recognition Certificate recognising that a person’s gender is female brings them within the EA 2010 definition of a “woman”.

Although this may sound a fairly complicated ground for appeal, should the decision made by those five Supreme High Court Judges be that a person with the Gender Recognition Certificate where their gender is female does not have the sex of a woman, such ruling will have major repercussions in the UK and far beyond for all women, women sex based rights and indeed trans rights.

For the Green Party, such potential change in the law – should ‘ For Women of Scotland ” win their Appeal – will mean that Green Party policy RR530 and all discriminatory clauses added to the disciplinary process since will have to be reviewed and amended so as to be compliant with an up-dated  Equality Act.

Minded to avoid further damaging and costly new cases of discrimination under such amended Equality Act, swift action would have to be taken by the competent body of the party to reinstate full membership to all suspended and expelled members because of their holding the view that biological sex is an immutable fact.

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