Tim Roca, MP for Macclesfield. Living in a different world to most of us here!
^He made the remarks during a talk he gave earlier this month at an event hosted by the University of Westminster, called Queering Academia. “I think actually the UK has now really gone down the rabbit hole into the way the United States discusses issues of gender, race, poverty, all of that,” he said. “So if we can bring the debate back into being one based on rationalism and compassion – and actually as we know, the facts – I think that’s a much better place for all of us to be. What we can’t be, is we can’t look like the alternative version of the transphobes. The best argument against them is a conversation with them, because they look swivel eyed and honestly, they’re not very well people, I don’t think, the ones that I’ve met. So we have to make sure, as passionate we are, that we’re talking passionately but sensibly and bringing people around.”