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A number of transgender people take their own lives in Pennsylvania · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: bigots debase themselves in Berlin. First up, to Pennsylvania in
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  Speaker 3: the US, where four transgender people are thought to have
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  Speaker 3: taken their own lives in the last year. The Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: Lesbian Correspondents blog names them as Rosaline Mataboni, who was 22,
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  Speaker 3: 40-year-old Riley Autumn Hart, Sydney Lou Walden, who was 30,
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  Speaker 3: and 48-year-old Robin James Post. All the deaths are unconnected
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  Speaker 3: in a state that's regarded as being in the middle
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to trans rights and acceptance. Riley jumped
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  Speaker 3: from the Homestead Grays Bridge, leaving her brother Robert Donovan devastated.
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  Speaker 3: could have changed this whole thing. Thanks to CBS Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 3: Riley was known for handing out small hearts, while Rosaline
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  Speaker 3: liked technology and Pokemon. Sydney enjoyed music and nature, and
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  Speaker 3: Robin loved his fur babies, Maddie and Bosley.
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  Speaker 3: Next, a maple tree planted at the site of the
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  Speaker 3: Berlin Pride terror attack has been ripped out by vandals.
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  Speaker 3: It comes just days after a rainbow bench, which was
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  Speaker 3: also part of a memorial at Tiergarten Park, was destroyed.
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  Speaker 3: A woman was killed and 31 people were injured on
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  Speaker 3: July 25th when a van was rammed into crowds. And
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  Speaker 3: something a bit less depressing, because good grief, we need it.
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  Speaker 3: The Archbishop of Naples in Italy is telling the Catholic
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  Speaker 3: Church to support transgender people, not judge them. Cardinal Domenico
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  Speaker 3: Battaglia says no one is excluded from the heart of God. Well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe that guy in the White House reckons the church
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  Speaker 3: needs to listen more and renew its focus on humanity
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  Speaker 3: so it can cross new thresholds, as he puts it.
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