Brexit Party Transgender Candidate

The Brexit Party have announced some more of their candidates. The big news seems to be that one is seeking to be the UK's first transgender MP. My first impression is that this seems like tokenism. A kind of "look, we're not bigoted, we're the first party to attempt to get a trans person elected" type thing.

Obviously the transgender issue is quite a controversial one too, so it's something that will generate a lot of content on social media. No doubt in the mainstream media too, though it'll be difficult for news outlets on either side to know how to play this one. Will "the right" take to heart a transgender politician and the accompanying trans rights activism? Will "the left" be able to stomach giving credit to the Brexit Party for being progressive? They've certainly been reluctant to credit them for their gay and ethnic MEPs so far.

I won't go into my own views about the transgender issue here as I've written about this before. So it's easier to just direct anyone interested here -->> The Gender Spectrum Explained

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