Trans person former Labour candidate Heather Herbert has been charged for disgusting comments about Ann Widdecombe

In every group of people there will be some who offend, most blatantly with the Heather Herbert case. That does not imply that the majority of that group (LGBT+ here) would support that person's behaviour.

Last post to Primrose

Wonder how the Tories feel, who actually gave this person enough votes to have them elected? 🤔

Typical response from those who haven't a leg to stand on.

Anyone with the ability to use their fingers to Google would have seen some of the output.

Also surely Aberdeen University surely would have been aware of the views political and trans this person held if they had done their due diligence before employing them

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Primrose53

I thought the title was lengthy enough and I had already acknowledged on another thread that he/she is now a Green Party member.

The words " former Labour candidate" in the OP were irrelevant to the subject.

So Miss, are you going to give me a detention? 🤣🤣

Primrose53

I thought the title was lengthy enough and I had already acknowledged on another thread that he/she is now a Green Party member.

The words " former Labour candidate" in the OP were irrelevant to the subject.

JaneJudge

Just an aside, I imagine there is a code of conduct you have to adhere to when working in a university and surely what you post on line is one of them?

You would hope there would be but I think its very loosely adhered to going by the amount of debates where the speaker has been cancelled

And don't forget, just for the sake of 'balance' and accuracy, an actual voted in, not just a candidate, Conservative MP.

Oreo

Millie22

I wonder what Aberdeen University think of his behaviour. It reflects badly on them too.

Universities are frightened to death of speaking out against any bad behaviours from their own staff or students.
That’s what it’s come to.🤬

So as I posted earlier regardless of wether they’re frightened or not has this person been suspended as happens in most other organisations or working at the University

Just an aside, I imagine there is a code of conduct you have to adhere to when working in a university and surely what you post on line is one of them?

I thought the title was lengthy enough and I had already acknowledged on another thread that he/she is now a Green Party member.

I’ll remember that tactic, Primrose53, when I start a thread about Nigel Farage, FORMER member of the Conservative, UKIP, and Brexit parties and forget to mention his current allegiance. 😉

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Casdon

Primrose53

Wyllow3

Stop trying to pin everything on the Labour Party or lefties, Primrose. She was only a candidate.

Jamie (now Katie) Wallis was the first openly transgender Member of Parliament.
Wallis served as the Conservative MP for Bridgend in Wales from 2019 to 2024.

*Its all about how you treat people - ie with decency, honesty and respect that matters, not your gender issue*

See the thread title. I said he/she was a candidate.

Why did you forget to mention that the Labour candidacy was in the past, and this person was now a Green Party member and had stood for them in the most recent council elections?

Read the title. I clearly said FORMER.

Oreo

I should have added, when it comes to trans matters.

I agree that people should have the right to be whoever they wish to be and present themselves to the world in whichever way they choose to.

But when an ideology has that much power that people are afraid to speak out against a person... That is something of a problem.

I imagine the staff at this particular university are in a real stress in how to deal with this one. Good luck with that.

Why did you forget to mention that the Labour candidacy was in the past, and this person was now a Green Party member and had stood for them in the most recent council elections ?
I agree, rather more relevant , the prominence of trans women in the Scottish parliamentary Green Party has been very much in the headlines.

I can’t imagine how you have missed them!

I am with Wyllow
I haven't read the awful comments. I can guess.

It's a dreadful shame that people with influence can say and do awful things whatever their sexual/sexual orientation/gender/ age -whatever.

I have a couple of trans friends but I forget that about them. I just know that they are kind and generous people.
Although I sometimes remember that one "female" was an engineer so gives me advice on machinery 😂

I should have added, when it comes to trans matters.

Millie22

I wonder what Aberdeen University think of his behaviour. It reflects badly on them too.

Universities are frightened to death of speaking out against any bad behaviours from their own staff or students.
That’s what it’s come to.🤬

Jamie, now Katie Wallis, the transgender ex Conservative MP has been given a community order for harrassing his ex wife.

I agree with Kandinsky.

I very much doubt it will be standing for election for any party again, and if it does there will be a huge outcry.