A Labour MP is under investigation by party officials because she liked a tweet saying that trans people were “mostly heterosexuals cosplaying”.
Rosie Duffield, the MP for Canterbury, provoked fury from LGBT Labour activists after she endorsed a post by a gay man who complained that trans people had appropriated the use of the word “queer”.
Duffield, 50, liked a tweet by Kurtis Tripp, an American rapper, accusing trans people of “colonising gay culture” and saying they were “mostly heterosexuals cosplaying as the opposite sex and as gay”.
Cosplay is an abbreviation of costume play and is a practice whereby individuals dress up as their favourite cartoon characters.
LGBT+ Labour, an affiliated group, put pressure on Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, to remove the
