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UK Prime Minister Makes Transphobic Joke
And it’s far worse than that title suggests
Here in the UK, the trans community are angry, and rightly so, and for once we’re not alone. So here’s the skinny…
As I write this it’s the early hours of the 10th of February 2024. Tomorrow, the 11th will mark one year since the brutal murder of Brianna Ghey, a 16 year old trans girl who lived less than 30 miles from my own home. The crime, and some mind-buggering details surrounding it, requires another piece - one I resisted tackling before her killers’ conviction.
All you need to know for context for this piece is that every Wednesday in the UK our parliament holds a session known as Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). And that this week, in the public gallery watching proceedings, Brianna’s mother, Esther, was going to be in attendance.
PMQs is a feisty affair with the Opposition party (currently the Labour Party) doing its best to hold the government to account for its failings. Preferably in a scathingly witty way. And then the Prime Minister, or a stand-in, retorts in an equally insulting fashion. Such is UK politics.
This week’s PMQs should have been a slam dunk for the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, as later in the day Labour were set to announce a hugely significant policy U-turn. A great…
