A Labour Party adviser on LGBT+ issues faces calls to resign after branding a Twitter follower a “hairy barren lesbian” and saying she wants to “gay bash” a TV star.

The transgender model Munroe Bergdorf, 29, was appointed on Monday as an LGBT+ adviser to Dawn Butler, the shadow equalities secretary. Ms Bergdorf announced her role by posting a photograph of herself at parliament with Jeremy Corbyn and writing that she would “help form and push through fairer and more effective policy change”. But The Times discovered a tweet where she made fun of a friend, saying: “How’s your barren womb? We all know your little secret . . . hairy lesbian!” She also criticised a singer on television, saying: “You have to admit she