Equality groups have branded comments the Perth Lord Mayor made about transgender people on breakfast radio “repugnant and bigoted”.
Key points:
- Basil Zempilas made comments about transgender people on his 6PR radio show
- Equality groups say Mr Zempilas’s statements were “bigoted” and “narrow minded”
- Mr Zempilas told a Perth publication he will apologise if anyone was offended
Basil Zempilas, who was elected to office earlier this month, told listeners of the breakfast show he co-hosts on 6PR it was “wrong” for someone to identify as a different gender to their physical anatomy.
“If you’ve got a…
