Reform councillor faces backlash over posts mocking trans people...

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Reform councillor faces backlash over posts mocking trans people and LGBTQ+ acronym

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/21/reform-uk-tracy-clayton/ 🔗

Siân Thompson (21 May 2026)

As reported by Yorkshire Live, Tracy Clayton, who won a seat representing Colne Valley West earlier this month, has been linked to an X account that allegedly shared memes targeting transgender women, AI-generated political imagery, and posts about Muslim communities.

One resurfaced image posted in March, just weeks before the local election, featured the slur-like addition of "pedosexual" to the LGBTQ+ acronym, echoing a long-running false trope used to associate queer people with child abuse.

The account, reportedly operating under the name "Tracy Clayton Reform UK," also shared posts questioning climate change and reposted content critics described as racist and discriminatory. Clayton has so far declined to comment publicly, responding "no comment" when approached at a council meeting.

A post from the same account published on 11 May, after the backlash began, said: "All the people that have attacked me, your narrative is boring."

Clayton is now the second Reform UK councillor elected in Colne Valley West to face scrutiny over alleged social media activity. Fellow newly-elected councillor Stefan Dransfield was recently criticised over a resurfaced 2020 Facebook post under his name showing an Asian man being punched with the caption "very satisfying."

Kirklees Council noted that the posts attributed to Clayton appear to predate her election and therefore fall outside the council's formal code of conduct for elected officials.

[Sephirah]

Yeah I wish I could say I was shocked. But I really am not. Reform is... the guy in charge got a £5 million "gift" to the point that the sitting government had to legislate against Crypto donations to parties. They have been shown to be massively racist, homophobic, transphobic, insular, and oligarchic. Where have we seen this before? Hmmm.

I am not sure how large the backlash is going to be, since people seem to want this kind of character running local government, if not national government. Which is a whole level of sad in itself. People are so disillusioned with the current lot that... it comes to something when the lesser of two evils has their own circle of hell.

[Stottie Girl]

Yeah I wish I could say I was shocked. But I really am not. Reform is... the guy in charge got a £5 million "gift" to the point that the sitting government had to legislate against Crypto donations to parties. They have been shown to be massively racist, homophobic, transphobic, insular, and oligarchic. Where have we seen this before? Hmmm.

I am not sure how large the backlash is going to be, since people seem to want this kind of character running local government, if not national government. Which is a whole level of sad in itself. People are so disillusioned with the current lot that... it comes to something when the lesser of two evils has their own circle of hell.

It is very upsetting. I thought we in Britain were better than this. Yes, we have always had the odd racist, homophobic knuckle draggers but for these morons to start being elected into power means the mainstream populace are harbouring these same thoughts. I don't know where this stuff ends. The far right seems to be on the rise all over the globe. Where is the fightback from the left?