Transgender Activist Gets Key Role At UK’s Crown Prosecution Service

Undated image of Sophie Cook, an independent candidate at the 2019 general election, standing on the beach in Brighton, East Sussex. Pete Jones/PA

The Director of Public Prosecutions has appointed a controversial transgender activist to a key diversity role at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Sophie Cook, a transgender woman who was a Labour Party candidate at the 2017 general election, has been appointed to a new role as the CPS’s “speak-out champion.”