To consider ending a friendship over differing political beliefs?

Depends on how extreme her views are really. Simply a different political party, no problem, if Neo Nazi or similar, cut contact and block them.

The transphobia thing I think is harder though. I have friends who I disagree with on this but I know that we both feel the way we feel because of a desire to protect a group of people that we see as vulnerable. Even though our views are very different I wouldn’t not be friends with her because I think her heart is in the right place.

I don't mind different political beliefs, but different values is something different. I wouldn't be friends with someone whose values were not in line with my own - in terms of respect for others, prioritising human rights, not supporting racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-immigrant stances, etc.

Agreed.

It’s healthy to have friends with differing views. Otherwise you only surround yourself with people who agree with you and then your opinions are never challenged which can be dangerous.

It really depends. I come from a very politically divided landscape and have friends from both sides, so I wouldn't automatically end a friendship over political beliefs by any means.
However I also have values and morals and I generally only want to seek out people who align with that. For example I wouldn't pursue a friendship with someone who wanted to criminalise homosexuality or had racist beliefs.

Depends what you mean by political beliefs. Anything within the mainstream that you might disagree with - eg support for Momentum/ the Tories/ Brexit etc - YABU to cut ties. If we are talking racism or antisemitism or similar then YANBU.

I think it depends on the issue concerned. I stayed friends with people who had very different opinions from me over Brexit and have agreed with some friends that we should never discuss politics, but there are some issues that are so significant that I can see it would be very difficult to remain friends with someone who had completely differing views to me.

It depends. I was brought up to have healthy debates on political subjects with respect for each side.

it’s perfectly possible to be friends with someone and have different beliefs and viewpoints. However there has to be respect and no attempt to push views onto others. Brexit has been the ultimate example of this. Those who snarled and snapped that only their viewpoint was valid I’ve dropped as friends.

Actually Brexit was fascinating - I have been able to remain friends with people who respect that we had a vote and people voted. One friend was just so rabid that I have lost touch with him largely at his behest, but like a PP I don't really miss his rabid hatred of leave voters. Brexit changed things for a lot of us I think - i thought the country would (mostly) accept the outcome whatever it was (that's after all what the PM at the time said he'd do too). It was sad it didn't work out that way, although perhaps understandable in some ways.

no I have very different views to some of my friends one of whom is a communist but as long as people don’t keep on trying to force their opinions onto others I don’t care we take the Micky out of each others views

Depends on the person. I have a few friends who have political views I profoundly disagree with but they are good friends and I respect their right to an opinion. They are not idiots, just different.
Some people are idiots though, so it depends.

It depends. Many of my friends, and my DH, hold differing political opinions to mine, vastly different in some cases. The crux is that they’ve all arrived at them from a place of reasoning, background discussion and lived experience, and I think that’s more important than living in an echo chamber and surrounding myself with people who think exactly as I do, or lack the self-confidence to be vehement about something they truly believe in.

If we’re talking in the case of your friend about outright bigoted views based on little more than watching some YouTuber then that’s a more difficult point of view to acknowledge and accept somebody holds, granted.

The absolute shit show of the snp and independence debacle and brexit nightmare has led to fractured friendships for me, mainly because they couldn't stand disagreement and tried to change my mind - re forcing a YES vote in snp and despite I didn't vote for brexit, they were appalled that I l didn't loathe people who did and kept on at me to cut contact with anyone who did!
That's what did it, not their voting stance.

I was brought up never discuss politics, religion,sex or money. I do have friends with complete different ideas to me,we either respect each others views or don't discuss it. I will say something on the lines of let's not go there.I am an atheist with very religious friends. How would you feel if it was a husband instead.