LGBTQ+ activists and organisations condemn Rishi Sunak’s transphobic comments
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been widely condemned for stating “a man is a man and a woman is a woman, it is just common sense” in his closing speech at the Conservative Party Conference, in Manchester (4 October).
In Sunak’s closing keynote speech he addressed the audience and said: “It shouldn’t be controversial for parents to know what their children are being taught in schools about relationships. “Patients should know when the hospitals are talking about men or women.
We shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be. They can’t. “A man is a man and a woman is a woman, that’s just common sense.” He was met with a rapturous applause from the Conservative Party ministers and members watching.
LGBTQIA+ organisations and individuals were quick to criticise the comments, alongside the general transphobic rhetoric presented across the broader conference, made by certain Conservative Party ministers.
