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Trans politician Sophie Cook releases her debut book
A transgender woman, who narrowly missed out on becoming Britain’s first transgender MP has released her first book.
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COMMENT | They weren’t voting for a trans woman, they were voting for Sophie Cook
As I stood on stage, a room full of expectant people looking up at me I was totally focused on the next words that I would hear. “Sophie Rose Cook, Labour Party, 20,882.” In the space of five short weeks, we’d achieved the seemingly impossible, taking a previously safe Tory seat and making it a […]
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MANCHESTER BOMBING | Trans GE2017 candidate Sophie Cook tweets her support for Manchester victims
Sophie Cook has tweeted her support for the people of Manchester following a suicide bombing at Manchester Arena. Sophie Cook, who is standing for Labour in East Worthing in the GE2017 has tweeted her support for the victims and survivors of the Manchester bombing. Taking to Twitter she said, that she was “heartbroken” on hearing […]
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COLUMN | Why a transgender woman wants to be MP
Why the time is right for me to stand for parliament. In the 1980s at the height of the Cold War, I was stationed in West Germany with an RAF Tornado squadron. Suffering from Post Traumatic Stress having saved the life of a colleague following an explosion, I was filled with an acute sense of […]
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OPINION | Trans people: It’s time to come out of the shadows
Over the past few years, transgender visibility has improved greatly with a number of trans people becoming very public through the media and I was even featured on Match of the Day‘s Premier League football show recently. So why do we still need a Transgender Day of Visibility? Unfortunately, that visibility has also brought an […]
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The UK’s first LGBT TV channel set to launch
A brand new LGBT TV channel is set to start broadcasting in the UK from February. The UK is about to get its first terrestrial LGBT TV channel. Broadcasting from February 2017 Latest LGBT+ TV will be bringing the best in LGBT news and entertainment to viewer’s TV screens on Freeview Channel 7 and Virgin Media 159 […]