'Mancs accept me for who I am - just look at Corrie's Hayley', says city's first trans councillor
On May 5, she became Manchester’s first trans councillor, and now represents the Ancoats and Beswick ward. From what had been a neck-and-neck race between the Lib Dems and Labour, Northwood pulled away and secured her seat by 335 votes.
“And he replied, ‘I’m just telling her, you’re all a bunch of s****s!’, and I thought, well he gendered me correctly, so that’s good. You have to laugh.” “If you look back, Manchester is the home of Corrie. They had a trans character on the show a very long time ago. It was just seen as something interesting about that person.
“It’s been a big debate within me about helping individuals, or helping more people but less so. That was the battle — do I want to become a politician, or a civil servant?" “For me, it was things like [promises to] nationalise water. How is that going to really tackle poverty and inequality? Or nationalising trains — the average profit on a train ticket is about three percent — it’s not going to bring trains down in price massively if you nationalise it. Three percent of a lot of train journeys is a lot of money — but it’s not going to be a radical overhaul. I was disappointed at that, so I decided to leave.
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