Conservative MP argues women ‘are being cancelled’ over trans debate

A Conservative MP has claimed that trans women being given the same status as women who were born female “is an issue of enormous significance to the rights and safety of women.”

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Miriam Cates, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, said suggesting “that women who want to be protected in these most vulnerable of areas are somehow bigots or transphobes is to completely deny the truth of the situation.”

Cates added: “If we erode the very concept of women – for example by saying that trans women are women, or by denying the importance of biological sex –  we erase the rights of women.”

The timing and content of the comments are likely to cause controversy, with the article being published on National Coming Out Day. Vice Word News reported earlier today that the number of transphobic hate crime reports in the UK has quadrupled over the last six years.