Biological sex is fundamentally important: UK PM Rishi Sunak
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New Delhi: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak added fuel to an ongoing debate on gender equality laws saying that women do not have penises. .
Earlier Labour Party chief and Leader of Opposition Sir Keir Stramer had stated that "99.9 per cent of women of course do not have penises".
When asked what percent he would put it at, Sunka during an interview with Conservative Home laughed off the question.
As the interviewer pressed him again saying whether he thought the figure was 100 percent, Sunak admitted it was, saying “ Yeah, of course’.
However, UK PM said issues of biological sex is fundamentally important when it comes to protecting women’s rights and spaces.
He said so calling for showing compassion, understanding and tolerance towards those who are thinking about changing their gender.
Sunak’s reaction comes just as the British government is mulling over plans to create a distinction in equality laws ‘between a person who was born a particular sex and someone who has undergone a sex change’, according to a report.
Meanwhile, UK's minister for women and equalities Kemi Badenoch sought the reaction of Equality and Human Rights Commission on the proposed amendment to change the legal definition of sex.
Prime Minister Sunak, however, stressed in his reaction that biological sex is fundamentally important, when it comes to women’s health, their sports or spaces, adding that the government is protecting those rights.
However, UK’s Equality Act allows to exclude transgender people from single-sex spaces including changing rooms and shelters.