UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to apologize for a remark about transgender people he made during his weekly questioning in the House of Commons. The comment came moments after Sunak was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager, Brianna Ghey, was present in Parliament.
During the exchange, Sunak sought to mock the position of Labour Party leader Keir Starmer on the definition of a woman. He listed a series of supposed flip-flops by Starmer, ending with a quip about his stance on 'defining a woman, although in fairness, that was only 99% of a U-turn.' The remark was intended to embarrass Starmer, who the Conservatives have accused of wavering on the issue of self-identification.
