Lord Moonie quit the party saying he was standing up for women’s rights and that he had been meaning to resign for a long time

A Labour peer has resigned from the party after his suspension for sharing alleged transphobic material on social media.

Lord Moonie, 72, was the subject of several complaints by party members after he retweeted dozens of posts by other users which condemn the recognition of transwomen as women.

The former MP, who has a medical background, also wrote on Facebook that he would be willing to attempt to carry out a smear test on a transwoman’s penis.

One post promoted by Lord Moonie endorsed mutilating a transwomen’s genitalia if forced to refer to them as “she”, and another described transwomen as “a perverted subset”.

Lord Moonie quit the party as soon as he was notified of his suspension, saying that he had been meaning to