Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has launched yet another attack at the trans community by saying that people âcanât be any sex they want to be.â
He made the remarks during his closing speech at the 2023 Conservative Party conference on Wednesday (4 October) afternoon.
At one point, Sunak said that people shouldnât be âbullied into believing people can be any sex they want to beâ as he made clear his stance on trans people.
âWe are going to change this country and that means, life means life. That shouldnât be a controversial position. The vast majority of hard-working people agree with it,â he began. âWe shouldnât get bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be. They canât,â â Rishi Sunak
âIt also shouldnât be controversial for parents to know what their children are learning in school about relationships.
âPatients should know when hospitals are talking about men or women,â which was met with a large applause.
He went on: âWe shouldnât get bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be. They canât.â
âA man, is a man, and a woman, is a woman, that is just common sense,â he added, to yet more noise from Tories in attendance.
Many on social media site X (formerly known as Twitter) reacted to the comments, accusing Sunak of making âpersistent attacksâ and labelling him âdisgracefulâ. âA man, is a man, and a woman, is a womanâ
One wrote in response: âTrying to distract people from his governmentâs corruption and incompetence by attacking some of the most vulnerable people in society. Vile.â
Needlessly stirring up hatred where it is unjustified to make a cheap political dig, before going on to claim the country is wonderful because of its tolerance. Disgraceful excuse for a PM,â another went on to add.
Sunak can go and do one. Pandering to middle class transphobes isnât the election winner you think it is,â someone else echoed.
âThe persistent attacks on not only one of the smallest but most at risk communities is vile. Absolutely disgusting party through and through including anyone who supports them,â a social media user weighed in.
It comes after Health Secretary Steve Barclay outlined plans yesterday (3 October) to ban trans women from accessing female NHS wards.
This has since been backed by other senior Tories such as Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall criticised the announcement, labelling it a âcynical attempt to look busyâ instead of actually improving womenâs healthcare.
Addressing party members in Manchester, Mr Barclay said: âWe need a common-sense approach to sex and equality issues in the NHS â that is why today I am announcing proposals for clearer rights for patients.
âAnd I can today confirm that sex-specific language has now been fully restored to online health advice pages about cervical and ovarian cancer and the menopause.
âIt is vital that womenâs voices are heard in the NHS and the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients are protected.â
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Oh great, so he isnât just a massive bellend but also a transphobe, wonderful.
Womenâs voices must be heard*
*Unless theyâre pro-LGBTQ womenâs voices, in which case they can stfu
Sunak is a grade A wanker
Maybe not, but they can be any gender they want to be.
Also worth noting though, there are more than 2 sexes.
How is this helping him in any capacity?
Distraction from actual issues
The mumâs net vote I imagine.
Playing on the fear of people and attitudes different to themselves is one of the Toriesâ main ways of getting votes.
Has anyone stopped these assholes to ask why they even care? Of all the hills to die on, this is the dumbest conservative talking point and theyâve got everyone talking about (obviously the plan) but canât we just dissolve all of that by demanding that they justify their faux outrage?
Easy target of a very small minority that can be mined for outrage.
Because hating on ~1% of the population, a lot of whom wonât vote for you anyway, doesnât lose you many votes.
I just want it to end. Iâm so tired. Iâm so very tired. Why canât people let trans people exist.
Because a lot of the usual minorities are not acceptable to dunk on anymore. Wider society has accepted gay people mostly as normal, so itâs not as acceptable as it used to be to have a go at them. Trans people? Now, theyâre not seen as normal, so they just getting harder on them.
Additionally there is a trend of US politics carrying over and people like Joanne K. Rowling and her transphob friends that lobby against trans people.
Hitler thought the same way.
You guys need to flush the #Tories completely in this upcoming election.
Youâre expecting that labour would be politically further in your favour. How optimistic.
Donât do that âtheyâre just as bad as each otherâ thing, Labour are clearly not this bad, and fortunately there are other parties to vote for!
Am I bitter that the only way the party of Labour will take power is by being Tory lite? Perhaps.
Pointing out that people are pointing out that the Tories are like the Nazis all of the time isnât a defence, itâs just admitting the indefensible and side stepping the issue.
If people quote Nazi like things itâs going to get brought up. My challenge to you, is to be better.
We shouldnât get bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be. They canât
They canât
Sounds like a challenge for transhumanist tech to solve đââ§ïžâ¶đ».
(Other people have covered the factual incorrectness here - the short of it is that (1) gender =/= sex and (2) âsexâ isnt some monolithic thing but a complex, multi-axis thing itself - most of these axes are changeable to various degrees as well .)
Itâs almost a game at this point where you can spot the bad actors because theyâre constantly using gender and sex interchangeably and pretending theyâre the same thing yet you know that theyâre definitely educated enough to know the difference.
How long til we can vote the tories out?
Their term ends in January 2025 but Sunak will call an election before winter when itâs too cold to go door knocking and flyering so likely in the Autumn meaning there will be another year of this madness.
Iâm sorry but the only way to have your rights guaranteed is to fight for them, not vote
In what way would you suggest?
Is ignorance a national sport in the West? Organise, rally people, strike, protest, annoy the shit out of lawmakers who threaten you.
Gather a big force that could potentially organise a big riot.
Sun Tzu said:
Subjugating the enemyâs army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.
That means you, most likely, wonât have to actually riot, if they see the community is organised they wonât risk a direct confrontation and would give in to your demands.
There are tons, tons of guides online on how to protest, organise, even how to go full guerilla. Just do not let your existance depend on a freaking vote.
Ignorance? Iâm well aware of the methods youâve suggested, I was just wondering what exactly you were referring to when you said âfight for themâ, and what you consider to be the most effective method.
Unfortunately I donât think itâs as effective as you think (at getting people to give into demands). Thousands of people protested after Liz Trussâ resignation asking for a general election last year. Rishi isnât going to call a general election any earlier than he needs to because he knows the conservatives are likely to lose. That said, yes I do think protests are a good way to drum up support and encourage people to vote. Despite what you may think, voting is important.
Those protests were so big I only found a single article about them. Protesting means doing at the very least what the French were doing. Block roads, wreck havoc,
make transphobes disappear. Raising a big group of people would only work if they were organised and could, ahem, do something to the government.Voting is only impactful to a certain, little, extent, when the government tells LGBTQ community they donât and/or shouldnât exist and the plan to fight back is to vote harder then something isnât right.
These lot need putting in one of their seven bins.
What a knob.
Itâs just hit me; this election cycle is their Lovely Horse. Theyâve mined what they can from the coffers for now, and have no interest in presiding over the next few years of absolute fuckery, so theyâve got Dougal on keys and Jack on backing, and are fixing for a gracious defeat.
They donât need to have an election until late January 2025.
Yeah, but theyâre laying the groundwork now.
I need someone to make that meme of Mr Bean looking over that dudeâs shoulder with Mr. Bean labeled as Sunak and the other dude as the American GQP. (Nvm, Iâve got it done: https://imgflip.com/i/81flvk)
Iâm not sure I understand why the Tories insist on taking leaves straight out of the US ultra hard right Maga playbook on these things. This is one of those areas where the UK should be separating themselves away from what weâre dealing with in the US. Instead, it seems as if yâall Brits are really digging your heels in on trans issues when there are so many other issues on the agenda (this is the case in the US as well, so trust, I can fully appreciate the frustration).
From my best understanding, this is Sunakâs appeal towards hoping that he and all the Tories are run out of office during your next general election, but dang! This has got to be the most asinine take Iâve seenâŠsince yesterday (things are perfectly inane in the US government at the moment).
Is that⊠Rishi Bean?
Iâm not sure I understand why the Tories insist on taking leaves straight out of the US ultra hard right Maga playbook
Because theyâre both playing from the Russian asset playbook.
We shouldnât get bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be.
Does it work like that? From my understanding, a lot of biological and psychological factors play a role. Iâve listened to a couple of lectures about that, I was surprised how complex it is. Iâd expect from someone in his position to be more educated on the topic. But he probably doesnât care. For him trans people is just a safe enemy to create and to attack. Too many politicians on the West follow Putinâs and Orbanâs steps. Thatâs worrying.
