Dear Editor,
THERE aren’t many female Heads of State in the world. It has been heartbreaking as a young lady to read the vile distasteful and disrespectful things supporters of the Coalition are saying.

The Honourable Mia Amor Mottley became Barbados’s first female Prime Minister; she secured a historic landslide victory, and won all seats in their parliament. The glass ceiling was thoroughly shattered. Though I am not surprised by the new narrative of members of the Coalition, after all, look at their representation, where are all the women?
Not only is it disrespectful to women everywhere, but it is also disrespectful to the LGBTQ community. To refer to a female leader as “man”, and use male pronouns clearly is a mockery and is unpalatable. Not only it is rude, but you are also mocking an entire community which is fighting to be recognised, and only a daily basis gets referred to by all kinds of degrading terms, and have to constantly have to explain the concept of preferred pronouns.
STOP with the disrespectful, unpalatable personal attacks!

Respectfully,
Nutana Singh