No charges were laid and the case was later dropped.

This led to police raiding the family home. When she was 15, Knight was arrested over claims she threatened to crash the Bullring shopping centre website. in philosophy, politics and economics at the Open University. Knight lived with her mother in Coventry in 2018, while studying for a B.A. Knight then attended Henley College Coventry, where she was the college's National Union of Students (NUS) lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) officer. She was educated at Lewis Charlton Learning Centre, an independent special school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Īs a child, Knight was diagnosed with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder. Knight came out as trans in 2014 her older sibling is also a transgender woman. Knight and her two younger siblings were taken into care in 2013. Īlthough assigned male at birth, Knight said she realised she was a girl around the age of 10, but her parents were unaware of the existence of trans people. This resulted, in a matter of hours, in an official statement by the website's administrators being released, in which Reddit confirmed that it had not properly vetted Knight before hiring her and that she was no longer employed by the company. In March 2021, Knight, after being hired as an administrator by Reddit, became a topic of contention on the website over her connection to David Challenor, leading to several sub-communities to protest her employment by the company.

Knight resigned from Stonewall UK at around the same time, leaving the United Kingdom for the United States. She later resigned and joined the Liberal Democrats, but was suspended in 2019 over tweets allegedly posted by her partner concerning sexual fantasies around children. Knight's recruitment of her father, despite her knowledge of the charges for 22 sexual offences, led to an investigation and Knight's suspension from the Green Party. In 2018, David Challenor, Knight's father, who had been serving as her election agent, was convicted and jailed for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl, and for making indecent images of children. In 2017, she stood for election in Coventry South, receiving 1.3% of the votes. Aimee Knight (née Challenor, born 1 October 1997) is a British transgender activist, former spokesperson and electoral candidate for the Green Party, and former Reddit administrator.

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