News-making transgender woman who married last April now trawling on internet for boyfriends

Joanne Cassar, the transgender woman who married her fiancé Kurstin Edwards last April after a long campaign in which the Labour Party made maximum use of an attention-seeking and clearly unstable person, is currently hawking herself on internet hook-up sites in search of dates.

She says she is looking for somebody tall and handsome – her husband is neither, and stands on tiptoe when they are photographed together – who is willing to travel.

In the President’s honours list in 2013 – the first under the incoming Labour government – Mrs Edwards, at the time Miss Cassar, was given the National Order of Merit for her campaign to changes in the law to allow transgender people to marry.

The relationship she had when she first began her campaign eventually collapsed, but she then found Kurstin Edwards and carried on her campaign using him as the man she wanted to marry.

Do you want to know what I think? Well, I’m going to tell you anyway. I think this is exactly the sort of situation as with Jeffrey Pullicino (Orlando) and his campaign for divorce. He said that he began his campaign because he wanted to be able to divorce to marry his long-time girlfriend Carmen Camilleri Ciantar. But the real reason was that he wanted to be the star of his own show and the centre of attention and, as a bonus, to cause political trouble.

Then when divorce legislation came through and he realised that he had no choice now but to actually marry Ms Camilleri Ciantar or look like a fool and a fraud, he postponed it for as long as he could while his behaviour became increasingly drunken and erratic, with apoplectic appearances on television. And just months after his marriage, he began cheating on his new wife who he didn’t want to marry in the first place and she fled, cramming her things into suitcases, and is now suing to have the marriage actually declared null and void by the courts.

Joanne Cassar was used and celebrated by the Labour Party and the media in exactly the same way. Loving the attention – more so because unlike Jeffrey Pullicino (Orland) she came out of nowhere – she then got stuck on the publicity conveyor-belt leading inexorably to her ‘you’ve got no choice but to do it now’ marriage to Kurstin Edwards. And now she is looking for sex and other options on the internet – who are specifically tall and handsome unlike Mr Edwards.

And here’s a lesson learned: if you are going to campaign for transgender marriage legislation or divorce legislation, don’t say you’re doing it for yourself when all you want is the limelight while you are being used cynically by a political party.