I’m going to be honest - I don’t actually know how to properly put into words the anger that I have felt towards the British Conservative Party’s attitudes towards trans people. The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has said some awful things about how he feels that he has been “bullied” into believing that people can “change their sex”. This statement alone proves how uneducated he is on this topic.
It has been established that there is a difference between sex and gender. Sex is what people are assigned at birth, whereas gender is the way that people identify and present themselves as. The idea that Rishi Sunak does not even understand this concept shows that he should not be discussing this topic, let alone making decisions regarding it. As a world leader it is his job to educate himself of matters such as this, which he clearly has not. The truth is that the Conservative Party does not care about issues that do not affect them - they are focusing on what will get them more votes in the next election. Sunak has seen this moral panic surrounding trans individuals in Britain and had chosen to focus on adhering to that rather than discussing the plans, such as Net Zero and HS2, which have fallen apart under his leadership.
Trans people are not the issue, they are simply the scapegoat that the Conservatives are using to distract from their own failings.
