Aimee Challenor
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Aimee Challenor (* 1998 as Ashton Challenor in Coventry ) is a British transgender activist , politician and former spokeswoman for the Green Party of England and Wales . In 2017 she stood for election in the constituency of Coventry-South and received 1.3% of the vote. In 2018, her father, who had previously served as her election agent, was convicted and jailed for sexual offenses against a child, and Challenor was suspended from the party during the investigation.
Personal life
Challenor has two siblings and two half-siblings. As a child, Challenor was diagnosed with oppositional defiance disorder. She was placed at the Lewis Charlton Learning Center , an independent special school for children with behavioral disorders. Two other children were temporarily taken into care by the authorities. In 2014, Challenor returned to his parents. Challenor has defined himself as trans since 2014 and called himself Aimee .
Aimee Challenor attended Henley College in Coventry, where she worked as an LGBT worker for the National Union of Students (NUS). Challenor lives with her mother in Coventry and studies philosophy, politics and economics at the Open University .
Political career
Challenor joined the Green Party of England and Wales in November 2014. She was Chair of LGBTIQA + Greens from 2015 to 2017. Challenor was elected as the party's equality spokesperson in 2016. In 2017, Challenor was the green candidate for Coventry South. It received 604 votes, that is 1.3% of the votes cast. Challenor ran for the Greens in the Coventry City Council local elections in February 2016, May 2016 and May 2018. She was not elected.
Election campaign and arrest of the father
Challenor ran for election as Vice-Chair of the Green Party of England and Wales in 2018 .
In August 2018, Challenor's father, David Challenor, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl. He was reported to the police in 2015 and charged in November 2016. Despite this, Challenor chose her father as her representative for the 2017 general election and also for the 2018 general election. After her father's conviction, Challenor - who insists that she did not fully understand the allegations against her father - resigned as a Green Party candidate. She was suspended from the party and the party opened an investigation into possible backup failures as David Challenor was approved as an election agent for Aimee Challenor after the date of the indictment. Challenor had given her father's name as Baloo Challenor , and later justified it by the fact that he was known locally by this nickname.
In September 2018, Challenor resigned from the Green Party on charges of transphobia and applied for membership with the Liberal Democrats , who are considering their application.
LGBT activism
In 2015, Challenor was the LGBTQ officer for Henley College in Coventry; she protested the censorship of college websites like Birmingham Pride, which the college's web blocker classified as "gay or lesbian or bisexual". Challenor organized Coventry Pride, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Pride event in 2016 and 2017 .
Challenor is a member of the Trans Advisory Group for Stonewall , the UK's largest LGBT charity.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aimée Challenor, short biography
- ↑ Alfie Pakham: Aimee Challenor. 'Yes, I'm trans, but I'm a Green politician and proud of it' theguardian.com, June 6, 2018, accessed January 16, 2019
- ↑ Liz Hull: Top Green Party star quits the party after hiring her father as her election agent despite knowing he was about to stand trial for rape and torture of a child Daily Mail, August 26, 2018, accessed January 16, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Challenor, Aimee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician and transgender activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1998 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coventry |