WORKINGTON MP Mark Jenkinson has come under fire for airing his views on transgender rights on social media.

Responding to a tweet by Labour MP Luke Pollard regarding people of non-binary having their rights respected, Mr Jenkinson wrote: “Trans men are not men, they’re trans men; Trans women are not women, they’re trans women; and being non-binary is a nonsense, you don’t get to opt out of nature.

“It’s not a debate, you’re right - we are not being kind by perpetuating this madness.”

His post disgruntled several people on the social networking site.

Writer Marie Gardiner responded: “What an awful person you must be to write something like 'being non-binary is nonsense'.”

Writer for The Guardian and Vice, Karen Geier continued: “Trans people exist, and deserve support. Those are facts. Trans rights are human rights. Also a fact.”

Some people have defended the politician for sharing his thoughts, however.

Michelle Dewberry, who won the second series of BBC’s The Apprentice and stood as an independent candidate and Brexit Party candidate in the 2017 and 2019 general elections in Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle tweeted: “Always nice to hear a bit of common sense being spoken. Seems rare these days.”

Jackie Doyle-Price, a Conservative MP for Thurrock, responded: “This is fact. Biology is immutable. However you choose to identify biological sex remains the same. The law and politics should stop pretending otherwise.”

Mr Jenkinson later shared a screenshot of an email from Twitter, highlighting that his post had been reported but was not subject to removal under the website’s rules.

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