Labour MP Rosie Duffield is investigated by her party for liking tweet
Labour MP Rosie Duffield is investigated by her party for liking tweet that said trans people were 'mostly heterosexuals cosplaying' Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield, 50, is facing a backlash from activists LGBT+ Labour pressured Sir Keir Starmer to remove the whip from Ms Duffield Ms Duffield tweet saying trans people are 'mostly heterosexuals cosplaying'
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A Labour MP is being investigated by party officials after she liked a tweet saying trans people are 'mostly heterosexuals cosplaying as the opposite sex and as gay'.
Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield, 50, is now facing a backlash from activists after liking the post by American rapper Kurtis Tripp, accusing trans people of 'colonising gay culture' and appropriating the word 'queer'.
The affiliated group LGBT+ Labour has pressured party leader Sir Keir Starmer to remove the whip from Ms Duffield, The Times reports.
The group's chairwoman, Alex Beverley, urged the party to prove it does not 'tolerate transphobia', telling the Labour List website: 'This recent endorsement of extremely homophobic and transphobic comments by Rosie
