Thu Oct 5, 2023 – 11:27 am EDT
MANCHESTER, England (LifeSiteNews) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came out swinging against radical transgender ideology on Wednesday, declaring that Brits “shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be.”
In a speech on the fourth and final day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Sunak said it “shouldn’t be controversial for parents to know what their children are being taught in school about relationships, patients should know when hospitals are talking about men or women.”
“And we shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be,” he said. “They can’t. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. That’s just common sense.”
According to Sunak, “in too many parts of our permanent state, virtue signaling has replaced common sense.”
This isn’t the first time Sunak has earned notice for criticizing transgender ideology.
In June, he took a jab at Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who had defended the notion that biological men with the full anatomy of males could actually be women, The Guardian reported at the time.
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