Rishi Sunak is not good news for the Transgender Community

Rushi Sunak yesterday took over as PM as the 3rd Tory PM in as many months. Here are some points he has made about Transgender people in the recent leadership contest that he lost to Liz Truss.

Rishi Sunak denied that Trans Women are Women

He stated during a leadership husting that “Trans Women are not women”.

Months before he launched his leadership bid, he said in a Mumsnet Q&A that trans people should be “respected”, but that “biology is important, is fundamental” when it comes to toilets and sports.

In that same Q&A he called on people to have “respect” for cis women who are “anxious that some of the things they have fought really hard for and rights that are important to them will be eroded”.

Damming report by an ally in the Daily Mail

While he was chancellor he did little to advance or roll back LGBT+ Rights in general, though this was not his job either.

An ally of his told the Mail On Sunday that he would reverse “recent trends to erase women via the use of clumsy, gender-neutral language”.

The same source claimed Sunak would launch a “manifesto of woman’s rights” if he became prime minister. This manifesto would include a ban on transgender women competing in sport. He also said Sunak would urge schools to be “more careful” on how LGBT+ topics are taught, a throwback to the hated Section 28 that was brought in by Margaret Thatcher.

“The safest and greatest country in the world for LGBT+”

He said, someone confusingly that “I want this to be the safest and greatest country in the world for LGBT+”. He singled out the issues of rising hate crime and the end of HIV Transmission by 2030. Does he not realise his party is in part to blame for the rising hate crime.

Conclusion

There is nothing to suggest that Rishi Sunak will be any different than Boris Johnson regarding LGBT+ Rights, in fact for transgender people in particular it looks like things will get worse.