marlinspirkhall:

cryptidjeepers:

okay im not british and i admit my understanding of british politics is not great but i found out that david tennant’s speech when he accepted the lgbt celebrity ally award made british politicans BIG mad. the way conservative transphobic politicans will weaponize any part of their identity to silence criticism agaisnt them is so disingenious and shitty.

THIS is what he said. okay

and this was the reaction of badenoch and sunak

literally weaponizing her identity as a woman and a woman of colour to distract from how dangerously transphobic she is. like what the fuck. anyways i just wanted to bring this up because it’s something that terfs do constantly. especially to shut up trans woman and cis male allies. not to mention david tennant is a father of a non-binary child and i believe one of other kids is queer. he’s not just being a performative ally, trans rights are important to him and his family. anyways fuck sunak fuck badenoch.

“attacking the only black woman in government” really takes the cake, because earlier this year, the largest Tory donor Frank Hester said he wanted to shoot Diane Abbott (first black politician in the UK, the incumbent MP for Hackney), and nothing has been done about it.

In fact, 6 days ago, Rishi Sunak said “in life if you made a mistake and honestly apologised and learned from it, as a society if that is something we can come together on, [that] is important.” so we can safely say he doesn’t actually give a fuck.