Former MP Miiri Black has left SNP for his LGBTQ+ rights stance (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Queer former MP Mhairi Black has left the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Black announced her decision to leave the party on Friday (July 25th), Herald She was unhappy about the direction the party took, particularly with regard to LGBTQ+ rights and Palestine.
“Essentially, for a long time, I didn’t agree with a considerable number of decisions that were made,” she told the news outlet. “There was too much when I thought about the decisions and strategies I had reached. ”
She confirmed that the party’s biggest problem was “suppression on LGBT rights, especially trans rights,” and that she believed that “the party and Palestine could improve.”
Black added that she “still just as unindependent” and that “probably I’m more left than ever.” Furthermore, she Good legal projectshelping to protect the legal rights of trans people in the UK.
Mhairi Black, the youngest MP to be elected since 1832 when he first joined Parliament in 2015, resigned as MP in the final general election of 2024, citing Westminster’s “toxic environment.”
“The whole design of the place and the features of its features are the opposite of everything I think is comfortable with,” she said before resigning in 2023.
Lesbian politicians have always been a solid supporter of trans rights and have called on politicians to “leave them.” [trans people] Only in Hell in 2023.”
“Being a trans person is not something to be feared. It’s just an aspect of humanity, and being gay is just an aspect of who I am,” she said at a Fringe event in Edinburgh. “I want to make trans people able to live with dignity and happiness, and I want newspapers and politicians to leave them to hell.”
Black previously condemned Labour MP Rosie Duffield’s view on the trans community, defending trans people after author JK Rowling hinted that promoting trans rights would lead to the elimination of lesbians.
“The thing I felt I had been erased as a lesbian was when an anti-trans activist cried out me and sent me the worst abuse every time I expressed my support for my trans brother,” she tweeted in 2020.
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