UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has waded into the debate over the rights of transgender people, declaring that a “man is a man, and a woman is a woman”.
The 43-year-old politician made the remarks at his first Conservative Party Conference as PM, which many analysts described as the most important speech of his political career.
One Twitter user accused Mr Sunak of “picking on trans people for a couple of cheap laughs at a Tory conference”. There were 4,355 transgender hate crimes recorded for the year ending March 2022. Comparatively, in the year ending March 2021, there were 2,799. Others called for the protection of women-only spaces, with one user calling on the government to “legislate and protect” single-sex spaces.
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