Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said transgender women are women amid a rise in anti-transgender hate in Canada and around the world. .“We will always stand up to this hate – whenever and wherever it occurs,” said Trudeau in a Wednesday tweet. .Trudeau started off by saying when women and girls are empowered, families, communities, and societies succeed. He said as people mark International Women’s Day and celebrate women and girls, they should “keep working to build a more equal and equitable future.”.People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier asked Trudeau to “stop labeling everything you disagree with as hate.”.“It’s just that ‘trans women’ are actually NOT women,” said Bernier..“They’re men who cross-dress and mutilate their bodies to look more like women.”.Defending Women’s Spaces author Karen Ingala Smith condemned Trudeau for saying trans women are women. .“If I believed in hell, I’d be hoping there was a special corner reserved for men who think women’s sex-based rights and protections, indeed our existence as a sex class, is theirs to give away,” said Smith. .The Cambridge Dictionary added another definition for the word woman to include transgender people in December..The new definition added for woman is an adult who lives and identifies as female who might have been a different sex at birth.
