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Sunak criticized for a gender remark on the day a murdered teen’s mother visited UK Parliament

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By PAN PYLAS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament. During his weekly questioning in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Sunak sought to mock the position of the Labour Party’s leader on the definition of a woman. Brianna’s father, Peter Spooner, said he was shocked to hear the remark and urged Sunak to apologize. Last Friday, the two 16-year-old convicted murderers of Brianna Ghey a year ago were handed life sentences with minimum prison terms of 20 and 22 years.

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