Forbes lost many of her early backers in the first week of the SNP leadership campaign following comments she made on gay marriage and sex outside of marriage.
Former SNP leadership hopeful Kate Forbes has claimed her supporters abandoned her because they were afraid of being "hounded".
She said: "I was really struck during my own situation, that those who knew my views and came out instinctively in support of me and then withdrew support, were fearful of being hounded themselves in the same way that I was being hounded. Forbes faced calls to withdraw from the race soon after she made her comments but she remained in the running until the end.Forbes had also said that she would have voted against the Scottish Government's gender reform laws if she had not been ion maternity leave.
Forbes claimed that the public were "fed up of being scared and intimidated" when it comes to debating self-identification for transgender people.
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