So to be clear... the Women's & Equalities Minister has stated that 'transwomen are women' is the starting point and the Speaker has declared his:
“most explicit and unequivocal statement of support” for LGBT rights and PinkNews.
In his speech, the Speaker hit out at anti-transgender voices in the media, the week the government launched a much-criticised consultation on gender recognition rules.
He said: “There’s still a huge challenge in terms of the trans community. We need to up our level of standing up for the rights of trans people.
“We shouldn’t allow people to peddle anti-trans messages under the guise of trying to protect other people’s rights. We shouldn’t let people muddy the waters in that way.
“It’s just not people screaming abuse in the streets – it’s sometimes people who have access to the media and can write articulately, and are using their position to push messages which I think result in very considerable and dangerous displays of hostility to trans people.
“Up with that we must not put, as Churchill might have said.”
Winston Churchill in the U.K. Parliament on October 13, 1943:
'So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.'