Sometimes I forget that people coming across my case do not know where it started, so I am putting this here to fill in the gaps for people who would like to know the root of my legal action.

I joined the Green Party of England in Wales (GPEW) in 2009, but only became aware of the stranglehold gender ideology had on the party in 2018.
I went to my first GPEW Conference in October 2019 where I was elected onto the Green Party Women committee, the officially recognised body representing the interests of women and girls in the Party. I soon became a co-chair, and once the trans rights activists discovered I held Gender Critical beliefs, they accused me of transphobia and bigotry and the vilification began.

The use of No Fault Suspensions
A No Fault Suspension (NFS) is an action that the Party can take to temporarily remove a member if it is alleged that member has done something that will harm the Party. It is supposed to be a short term measure while the complaint is investigated, however some Gender Critical members have been stuck on an NFS for over two years before the complaint is even heard. NFS are used by the gender extremists to remove members with Gender Critical beliefs.

2021 No Fault Suspension
I was re-elected as Green Party Women co-chair in January 2021, and in March that year I brought a motion to GPEW Spring Conference entitled ‘Ensuring Sex and Gender are not Conflated when Gathering Data‘. The aim of the motion was to make sure that, where relevant, the basis on which statistics are gathered for policy making is transparent in relation to sex and gender. This motion was called ‘anti trans’ by leading Greens, including the then co-leader (now MP), Sian Berry, who urged people to vote against it. The motion was whisked off the agenda a few minutes before it was due to be heard in a highly unusual and undemocratic move. Eight months later I received an apology for the way this had been done.

Two days after the 2021 Spring Conference (on International Women's Day), I was put on a No Fault Suspension for asking whether I was obliged to agree with the claim that a trans identified male who sat on the Green Party Women committee was biologically female. After five months the No Fault Suspension was lifted, but the complaint has still not been heard.

2022 Further No Fault Suspensions
In January 2022 I was elected as co-chair of Green Party Women for the third year running. The committee held its first meeting on 3rd February 2022, and on 4th February I was given three No Fault Suspensions for various alleged transphobic misdemeanours. I was later given a six month disciplinary suspension following an accusation of transphobia made by a former deputy leader of the GPEW.

2023 Expulsion
The GPEW disciplinary committee barred me from standing for the Green Party Women committee in 2023, and in January 2023 following a complaint by Sian Berry and a leading Green Party councillor, I was expelled. I appealed against that expulsion, and the appeals committee agreed that the disciplinary hearing was unfair, and ordered the complaint to be reheard. This second disciplinary hearing was held in March 2023, and I was expelled again. I appealed, and after prevaricating for several months, the appeals committee finally overturned the expulsion and reinstated my membership in November 2023. This upset the Party trans activists, and so in January 2024 the Green Party Regional Council quashed the previous appeal outcome and expelled me for a third time. I am supposed to have another hearing, but the appeals committee is now run by the gender extremists, and so it is no surprise that I have been waiting for them to organise a hearing since January.2024.

My case against GPEW catalogues the ways in which I have been targeted by leading members, including the former co leader and deputy leader. I have a very strong case with a lot of evidence, and my legal team and I are very confident I will win. 

What will my legal action achieve?
It is clear that the tactic of demonising people with Gender Critical beliefs in political parties, charities and other organisations is widespread, as is evidenced by the number of court cases and employment tribunals that are being won by Gender Critical respondents.

GPEW has been found guilty of discriminating against members with Gender Critical beliefs. The LibDems are guilty of doing so too, and the Labour Party has tied itself in knots over questions on single sex spaces. A win in one case makes it easier to challenge gender ideology in all the other institutions, so the outcome of this case will have ramifications across all political parties and organisations.

GPEW has shown itself to be in denial about the discrimination it is enacting. Underhand, authoritarian methods used to crush dissent are rampant in GPEW, and this should alarm everyone, because democracy is dependent on the free exchange of ideas and opinions from all perspectives.

Why I need to raise funds
Put simply, legal actions are incredibly expensive. My legal team at Didlaw are experienced in handling discrimination cases - they represented Shahrar Ali in his win against GPEW, dismantling GPEW flimsy arguments, exposing the Party's shoddy practices and thoroughly proving their worth.

I have complete confidence in Didlaw and I am working closely with them to ensure that every penny of your donations is spent well.

Thank you to everyone who has read my case, shared and donated. I am really grateful to you all. I know this is a long battle but nevertheless, with your help, I will persist!

I am still expelled and awaiting my fourth Green Party appeal ordeal. There is no indication when that might be, as communications from the complaints department are scant, but in an interesting wrinkle it seems that the process the Green Party Regional Council used to overturn the previous appeal decision and expel me again was constitutionally shaky; the Party cannot agree on whether an appeals outcome can be overturned this way, or whether the Green Party constitution makes that impossible.

In Shahrar Ali's win against the Greens, the judge ruled that the Party had used a process that was procedurally unfair to remove him, and I wonder if the Green Party Executive are cognisant of the fact that there is disagreement among those responsible as to whether they have broken their own Party rules in expelling me again.

Scottish Green Shenanigans

Seeing the Scottish Green Party expose themselves over the past few weeks has been frustrating, though I can't deny a small slice of schadenfreude in seeing the frothing Scottish Green leaders scrabbling to appease their fanatics and getting dumped by the SNP.

In 2022 My alleged transphobia was cited as one of the reasons the Scottish Green Party disaffiliated from the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW). The Scottish Rainbow Greens had publicly chided GPEW women for having the temerity to elect me as Green Party Women co chair. I responded robustly, and was subsequently suspended for being 'disparaging' towards the Scottish Rainbow Greens. I was told that the diplomatic problems I had caused between the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party of England and Wales were 'unprecedented.'

The GPEW response to the break up between the Scottish Green Party and Scottish National Party has been very muted, and I hope that it is dawning on the GPEW Executive that the actions of the SGP lean towards “horrible warning” rather than “good example”.

The Greens on both sides of the border have been cranking up the purge of Gender Critical members, with long term loyal members expelled or strung out on No Fault Suspensions for months or years on end. This is distressing, but I take heart from the fact that claimants with Gender Critical beliefs are wining in courts and employment tribunals. Roz Adams has just won her case against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Shelter, and on reading the judgement, I can see numerous parallels between the attitude of the gender ideologists in her case and those who dominate the Green Party. The hostile atmosphere towards Gender Critical members, and the assumption that Gender Critical views are inherently hateful, feels familiar.

Sadly it seems that GPEW are continuing to follow the advice of Stonewall and are clinging to no debate. That advice will end up costing them very dear when my case comes to court.

As ever, I am very grateful to all my supporters.

We will win this battle!

Emma Bateman

I thought I would take the publication of the Cass Review as an opportunity to give an update on my case against the Green Party. I hope that, like me, others are relieved that at last our reservations about the transitioning of children are being given due credence instead of being slammed as bigotry. This is mixed with anger and frustration at it taking so long for people to hear us, and the potential harm that delay has caused.

The Green Party's official response to the Cass review has been a point blank pretence that it hasn't happened. Other political parties and the media are addressing what may be regarded as the biggest medical scandal since lobotomies were fashionable, but the Green Party is pincered in the grip of the gender extremists. The review has not been welcomed, and in fact if the leadership were to show anything other than contempt for Cass, they would risk falling foul of the stranglehold of the Green Party's own queerphobia guidance, because according to the Green Party, it is transphobic to Claim, imply or insinuate “that an LGBTIQA+ child or adolescent cannot understand or be aware of their own identity and/or knowledge of themselves or are too young to know better”.

This puts the leaders in a bind – if they endorse the Cass Review findings, they can be accused of flouting the queerphobia guidelines.

The LGBTIQA+Greens have filled the official silence with a statement accusing the Cass review of 'inexcusable bias', of 'platforming transphobes' and of 'supporting transphobic hate groups'.

This statement has been shared by the Green Party Deputy Leader, the Green Party Spokesperson for Equality and Diversity and other senior Greens.

The Green Party has trans activist tunnel vision and there are no signs of that changing. It seems that despite the hot air, the trans activist balloon is going down and more gender critical members are being thrown out to try and keep it afloat.

At the last count there are at least 15 gender critical members who are currently suspended, expelled or sanctioned by the Party. The majority are middle aged women on farcically named 'no fault suspensions' who supposedly pose a danger or threat to the Party.

I am still expelled, awaiting what will be the 6^th consideration of a complaint against me made by a former Co Leader of the party. There is no end date for this punitive process which began in January 2023, and no assurance that this will be the final hearing. The trans activists can simply cobble together another challenge to the outcome if it does not suit them.

Supporters may wonder why I carry on submitting to the erratic vagaries of the disciplinary process. I do so to expose the double standards and feeble excuses used by the perpetrators of that system.

The party is determined to career along this authoritarian crackdown path that can only end in court.

As ever I am grateful to my supporters for their continuing support.

Onwards and Upwards!

Emma Bateman