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A Check-In on the Queer Community · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane
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Speaker 1: Never Told You production of iHeart Radio. And as we
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Speaker 1: are recording this and as it comes out, it is
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Speaker 1: the month of June two, so happy Pride months. And
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Speaker 1: I guess, in a typical Sminty fashion, this is a
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Speaker 1: bit of a downer of an episode. We do have
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Speaker 1: like a little pick me up at the end. Um,
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Speaker 1: So just bear that in mind, because because we wanted
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Speaker 1: to take a look at some things going on in
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Speaker 1: the l g B t Q plus community. Um, and
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Speaker 1: that means we're gonna be talking about some negative and
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Speaker 1: potentially triggering things like the wave of anti trans laws
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Speaker 1: don't say gay Bill, how overturning Roe v. Wade might
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Speaker 1: impact the gay community. But yeah, there will be a
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Speaker 1: little snippet happiness. Um. But yeah, I totally understand if
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Speaker 1: it's too much right now, if this is just not
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Speaker 1: if you want your pride to not be this it
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Speaker 1: get it. Uh, And this is going to be pretty
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Speaker 1: us focused. But listeners from around the world, please please
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Speaker 1: please right in. Please don't be awesome. We love input
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Speaker 1: on what's going on, because yeah, sometimes we don't get
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Speaker 1: to see the bigger picture. Unfortunately, thanks to all of
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Speaker 1: the ways that we UM, the internet can see us
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Speaker 1: in our interests. It's terrifying but not wrong. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: also for those who are not in the queer community, yes,
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Speaker 1: we do have responsibility to listen. I know, sometimes we
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Speaker 1: need to take breaks because there's a lot of bad
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Speaker 1: in the world that we do have responsibility when someone
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Speaker 1: or when those in the marginalized communities have put in
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Speaker 1: that work. Yeah, sit back and take a listen. And unfortunately, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of negative thingsings and we need to
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Speaker 1: realize that and that that is a fight for us
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Speaker 1: to be a part of as well. Yes, yes, definitely,
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Speaker 1: And I will say it was kind of this is
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Speaker 1: gonna sound strange perhaps, but I was sort of disheartened
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Speaker 1: with how hard it was for me to find information
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Speaker 1: about this stuff, even though it's not happy stuff. I
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Speaker 1: was like, surely this will be easier to track down,
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Speaker 1: and it kind of wasn't. UM. So if you have
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Speaker 1: resources also, those are always welcome, great resources we love. Alright,
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Speaker 1: So yeah, let us start with UM trans rights and
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Speaker 1: a little bit about what's going on in the United
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Speaker 1: States around that. So a recent poll found that a
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Speaker 1: little over seven percent of Americans identify as anything other
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Speaker 1: than a heterosexual, which is up from previous years. However,
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Speaker 1: all of this has come with a backlash, and as
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Speaker 1: we've been discussing, there has been a substantial and very
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Speaker 1: disheartening wave of anti trans laws across the country, UM,
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Speaker 1: several causing a trans people and their families to relocate
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Speaker 1: to a different date if they have the means to
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Speaker 1: do so. As of May twenty, anti l g P
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Speaker 1: t Q bills have been introduced in the US, UM
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Speaker 1: compared to just forty one and all. Yeah, and there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons for that, the backlash. But also
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Speaker 1: like conservatives really love identity politics and sort of these
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Speaker 1: like they can stir up anger or fear around things
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Speaker 1: like this. But yeah, there's a lot of pieces you
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Speaker 1: can read about why why this is going on. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so let's briefly go over a few let's I'll take
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Speaker 1: a deep breath, and here we go. So, as of now,
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Speaker 1: seventeen states have laws banning trans students from playing sports
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Speaker 1: at their schools. Arkansas passed a law prohibiting certain types
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Speaker 1: of gender firm and care, a law that was temporarily
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Speaker 1: banned after the a c l U sued, but other
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Speaker 1: states have similar laws pinning, including Ohio, Illinois, Idaho, and Arizona. Right,
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Speaker 1: And I guess we kind of time stamped this, but
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Speaker 1: just to put it out there, a lot of this
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Speaker 1: is changing pretty rapidly, so just to keep that in mind.
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Speaker 1: Some of this might um have changed. Georgia has some
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Speaker 1: laws that already went through, so yeah, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to touch on Alabama and what's going on in Alabama
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Speaker 1: in a second. So yeah, just to put that out there.
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Speaker 1: In February two, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered that authorities
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Speaker 1: investigate parents who allowed certain types of health care procedures
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Speaker 1: for their children, procedures clearly associated with trans children. He
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Speaker 1: labeled these procedures as forms of quote child abuse and
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Speaker 1: part claiming they cause sterilization, and called called on Texans
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Speaker 1: to come forward with any suspicions that this was going
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Speaker 1: on with people that they knew or perhaps don't know. Um.
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Speaker 1: Legal scholars say that this was is an unprecedented act
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Speaker 1: on Abbott's part, and medical experts have rep utterly shut
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Speaker 1: down this whole idea of sterilization and child abuse when
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Speaker 1: it comes to gender affirming medical care. In fact, gender
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Speaker 1: affirming care has been approved by the American Medical Association,
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Speaker 1: the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Speaker 1: Many trans folks have shared their struggles with the gender
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Speaker 1: dysmorphia and suicidal ideation, and how gender affirming care literally
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Speaker 1: saves their lives and helps them with things like depression.
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Speaker 1: So this is just so uninformed and hurtful and damaging
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Speaker 1: m despite the fact that Abbot's order was non binding.
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Speaker 1: Not long after, a lawsuit was filed against a family
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Speaker 1: with a sixteen year old transperson and investigators showed up
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Speaker 1: at their house and asked to see medical reports. There
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Speaker 1: have been some counter suits, but Texans and others are
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Speaker 1: afraid that it will become law. The Texas legislature has
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Speaker 1: already tried to pass a similar law, and it looks
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Speaker 1: like they're going to try to do it again. So
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Speaker 1: and like we're seeing with abortion, you know, other states
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Speaker 1: take note of this and they try to do the
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Speaker 1: same thing. Right, And of course we're not going to
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Speaker 1: talk about the shooting right now, but it's interesting that
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Speaker 1: they are still focusing on anti trans laws, including the
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Speaker 1: fact that he's trying to ban drag shows, saying that
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Speaker 1: this was harmful and grooming for children, but yet not guns.
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Speaker 1: Not the guns, of course not. And then what's going
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Speaker 1: on in Alabama? Recently Alabama legislators signed a law with
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Speaker 1: the goal of criminalizing gender affirment care for young transgender folks,
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Speaker 1: punishing any medical practitioner who prescribed it with up to
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Speaker 1: ten years in prison. Another law signed around the same
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Speaker 1: time required that trans youth used the bathroom and locker
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Speaker 1: room for the gender they were assigned at birth. And
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Speaker 1: once again, we've already had this in court, and yet
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Speaker 1: and yet, but this is also the stiff relation that's happening,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about it soon. But the fact
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Speaker 1: that overturning another Supreme Court statute, Row versus Wade, it
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Speaker 1: kind of leads up to opening that whole ground. So
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Speaker 1: after all of this, the U. S Department of Health
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Speaker 1: and Human Services released a statement reiterating that doctors are
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Speaker 1: not required to share confidential medical information when it comes
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Speaker 1: to gender affirming care. And once again, it's really really
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Speaker 1: hypocritical about the fact about this disclosing of medical records,
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Speaker 1: you know, especially when it came to I don't know
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Speaker 1: a certain shot booster shots that could save lives m hmmm. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: for sure. I was reading this like, I mean, it's atrocious,
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Speaker 1: but also I don't aren't we like can't cermatical records.
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Speaker 1: That's what happened. The whole thing. The hypocrisy is amazing. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: And to briefly touch on what you mentioned, Samantha, we're
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Speaker 1: not going to go into this two in depth, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: we have seen just so much hateful and damaging rhetoric lately.
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Speaker 1: And just for one example, Georgia candidate herschel Walker claimed
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Speaker 1: something was wrong with the Texas shooter because he dressed
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Speaker 1: in women's clothes, which was a fake story circulated on
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Speaker 1: four Chan, I believe, and you know, like either ways,
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Speaker 1: neither here nor there, but yeah, Margie Taylor Green chimed
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Speaker 1: in on this too, saying the killer was a cross
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Speaker 1: dressing loaner, claiming straight people were growing extinct and Pride
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Speaker 1: Month needed to end, and flying Pride flags at US
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Speaker 1: embassies should be illegal. Uh, calling trans people terrorists, um.
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Speaker 1: Things like these directives and legislations have only added fuel
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Speaker 1: to anti trans sentiments and made trans folks and their
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Speaker 1: families feel like they have to hide for their safety.
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Speaker 1: And trans violence is has always been a problem, and
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Speaker 1: it's on the rise, and we've talked about that, we've
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Speaker 1: talked about that before, but like rhetoric like this is
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Speaker 1: just making it so much worse. And when it comes
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Speaker 1: down to the fact, this is not about protecting anyone,
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Speaker 1: it is almost a thinly veiled statement of genocide. Let's
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Speaker 1: just be very real, help poof, Okay, And then we
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Speaker 1: need to talk about the passing of the so called
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Speaker 1: Don't Say Gay Bill, which bans the teaching of anything
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Speaker 1: around sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten to third
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Speaker 1: grade in Florida. Florida Governor Ronda Santis, who signed the law,
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Speaker 1: has scoffed at it being called that Don't Say Gay Bill.
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Speaker 1: But it comes with this section quote classroom instruction by
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Speaker 1: school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender
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Speaker 1: identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade three, or
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Speaker 1: in a manner that is not age appropriate or develop
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Speaker 1: mentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards. So uh.
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Speaker 1: This also allows for parents to sue if they think
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Speaker 1: that this is in any way being violated. And because
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Speaker 1: of that vague wording, it has already led to confusion
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Speaker 1: and fear, which means that even outside of third grade,
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Speaker 1: teachers are hesitating to share materials related to LGBTQ plus
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Speaker 1: issues because you know, age appropriate could be wildly interpreted
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Speaker 1: based on whoever is making the argument. Even worse, some
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Speaker 1: books have already been banned and some books have been
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Speaker 1: burned book burning. Other states alike in North Carolina are
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Speaker 1: trying to pass their own versions of this bill. And yes,
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Speaker 1: we're seeing a similar thing with CRT, which we've talked
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Speaker 1: about briefly UM and so like. There have been a
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Speaker 1: lot of heartbreaking stories and videos shared by teachers and
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Speaker 1: even young students who feel like they can't talk about
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Speaker 1: their parents who are in a gay relationship. And it's
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Speaker 1: teaching shame to two children. It's teaching them that this
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Speaker 1: is wrong, that they feel like they can't be themselves
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Speaker 1: or they can't be open about people in their lives.
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Speaker 1: It stigmatizes the l g b t Q plus community. UM,
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Speaker 1: and it has also been upseddenly sexualized by some proponents
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Speaker 1: of it. UM. The santis Is secretary called it the
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Speaker 1: anti grooming bill. Quote. If you're against the anti grooming Bill,
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Speaker 1: you are probably a groomer, or at least you don't
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Speaker 1: denounce the grooming afford to eight year old children, which
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Speaker 1: is gross right, which, by the way, the people who
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Speaker 1: are most likely sexualizing children are heterosis people who really
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Speaker 1: think it's cute to couple up children based on gender.
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Speaker 1: So literally like, oh, these two are boyfriend girlfriend? How
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Speaker 1: the level? And I say this as a person who
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Speaker 1: do believe this is a normal thing. But the way
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Speaker 1: that people dismiss children's actions when they curiously start pointing
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Speaker 1: at each other and like that's movies, that's a penis
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Speaker 1: like saying things like that. Mhm. It's interesting how easily
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Speaker 1: they'll excuse this. This is sexualization. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you understand what's going on, but this is exactly what
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Speaker 1: you're talking about as being inappropriate, and it's typically lead
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Speaker 1: again because of heterosis people in general, religious people that
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Speaker 1: think it's kind of funny. M So that's a different conversation.
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Speaker 1: And again that's like the whole touching, that's the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: We won't get into it. There's a lot of controversy
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Speaker 1: in that conversation. But again, we have allowed for some
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Speaker 1: of the things to say this is okay, this is normal,
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Speaker 1: versus oh, I don't like this this is grooming, which
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Speaker 1: is interesting how they're going to categorize this. Also, I
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Speaker 1: did see and I'm not sure the results of this,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know how far it went. Someone needs
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Speaker 1: to tell me, um that a person came out to
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Speaker 1: banning the Bible saying this is not age appropriate and
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Speaker 1: willing to sue for it. So I think they brought
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Speaker 1: it up, and I can't remember. I know someone out there,
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Speaker 1: nose they brought it up during one of the meetings
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Speaker 1: a parent teacher meetings or council meetings as saying this
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Speaker 1: needs to be banned. If it's not, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: sue because it's inappropriate. It has a rape, it has incess,
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Speaker 1: it has murder that um. And so I would love
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Speaker 1: to hear if anyone's got a result, or if it's pending,
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Speaker 1: or if they dismissed it, because again they are hypocrites.
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Speaker 1: Yeah oh yeah, And we have a episode coming up
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Speaker 1: kind of exploring more into that. Um my name any
13:43
Speaker 1: comming up looking into that a little bit more soon.
13:45
Speaker 1: But it's also kind of like, I mean, not only
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Speaker 1: it does it show like you don't understand how queer
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Speaker 1: people work, because I guess the idea here is you
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Speaker 1: think that they're being radicalized into being queer. That's great,
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Speaker 1: people will be extinct in five generations. It's also like,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of like what we talked about with the
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Speaker 1: in Bisexuality and the Bisexual episode, and something I experienced
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Speaker 1: when I would tell people I'm bisexual was it's like
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Speaker 1: you're immediately sexualized. That means you have sex with anybody, um,
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Speaker 1: and it's I don't know. I had I feel like
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Speaker 1: I need a psychologist to just sit down and explain
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Speaker 1: to me this thought process because I think there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of mess up things going on, well in yourself,
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Speaker 1: for other people and other people. Okay, I was like, no, no,
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Speaker 1: that clarification because the way you were like going on
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Speaker 1: your own head confused me. This video level. Um, however, yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. Like when we come into conversations about
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Speaker 1: this and pretending like it doesn't exist. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: let's once again talk about how dangerous this narrative is
14:54
Speaker 1: when we talk about grooming, because for the longest time
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Speaker 1: people didn't know what it was. We finally got into
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Speaker 1: a track of understanding it, and now we're overusing it
15:02
Speaker 1: to the fact that children are going to be confused
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Speaker 1: agin grooming can only happen if you're uh queer, which
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Speaker 1: is really dumb because that's not true in any way
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Speaker 1: or form. Kind of like the same boogeyman theory of
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Speaker 1: we're not really being violated if we know them. Kind
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Speaker 1: of the same thing. And this is that same perpetuated
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Speaker 1: level of how we're confusing children and trying to understand
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Speaker 1: the truth because we have become so decissitized and this
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Speaker 1: has become so politicized that we are no longer able
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Speaker 1: to do what we need to do and to really
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Speaker 1: protect children. You don't like feeding them? I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean. And that's a great point. And uh, as mentioned,
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Speaker 1: there is an episode we're coming up in my name anyway,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna look into that bit more. But it's like
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Speaker 1: what we talked about in the sex trafficking episode of
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Speaker 1: bridget where mostly conservatives are sort of co opting this
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Speaker 1: issue and confusing it and actually hurting people by doing that,
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Speaker 1: the people who are actually affected. Um, and again they
16:03
Speaker 1: have weapinized it. And we talked about this when you
16:05
Speaker 1: and I were talking about women in Q and on
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Speaker 1: that they have worked out a way to put fear
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Speaker 1: as the front runner as a front runner in order
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Speaker 1: to win that conversation without any actual understanding or research. Yep, yep,
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Speaker 1: they sure have. Well, we did wanted to talk briefly
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Speaker 1: about Disney. I guess after some for responses from the
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Speaker 1: higher ups around the don't say gay Bill, Disney publicly
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Speaker 1: condemned it and they lost their special economic status that
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Speaker 1: I think they've had for fifty years now. Should they
16:41
Speaker 1: have had that in the first place? That's a different podcast.
16:43
Speaker 1: I can't tell you, but I can tell you like
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Speaker 1: it's messed up that that's what got it taken away? Right, Yeah, which,
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Speaker 1: but by the way, I don't think they did. I
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Speaker 1: think they have to put it into a vote in legislation.
16:58
Speaker 1: So the Santis did this whole announcement, but he has
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Speaker 1: no authority to do so they have to go through
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Speaker 1: a whole process. Now, could he make it happen, Sure,
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Speaker 1: But I think the bigger route is who's going to
17:10
Speaker 1: take away money? As very usual and who has power?
17:13
Speaker 1: So essentially it is a kind of empty threat. Yeah,
17:18
Speaker 1: it's a power play, is seeing who can outlast two,
17:21
Speaker 1: But it's about the money, um, which we know it's
17:24
Speaker 1: about the money. Again, different podcasts as you say. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's interesting, and yeah, keep going because I got some
17:32
Speaker 1: thoughts on companies. Okay, Yeah, because a lot of companies
17:36
Speaker 1: like Disney have been called out not just this year
17:40
Speaker 1: but many many years for selling rainbow merchandise and changing
17:44
Speaker 1: their social media icon to a rainbow while quietly donate
17:48
Speaker 1: millions to anti lgpt Q plus legislation and politicians. You
17:52
Speaker 1: can find, um, I found like a chart if you
17:55
Speaker 1: want to look which I would recommend of companies that
17:59
Speaker 1: are doing that. And yeah, I've seen some very problematic
18:02
Speaker 1: company talians already where I'm like, there's also individual countries
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Speaker 1: who are celebrating. You're like kind of like the US,
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Speaker 1: should you really be celebrating? Stop it? But yeah, there's
18:17
Speaker 1: this whole conversation about look what happened when the religious
18:21
Speaker 1: Freedom Bill happened all across the country at one point
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Speaker 1: in time. The way they were stopped at that point
18:26
Speaker 1: in time was because businesses and organizations are threatened to
18:30
Speaker 1: pull out of these areas. So Georgia once again, because
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Speaker 1: that's the you know, forefront for me living in Georgia.
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Speaker 1: As the Religious Freedom Bill quote unquote came about, was
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Speaker 1: an absolutely anti l g b t Q plus community
18:46
Speaker 1: bill trying to stop queerness I like a can and
18:52
Speaker 1: all of these companies, Hollywood in itself said we're gonna
18:55
Speaker 1: pull out. We are a multi billion dollar company, have
18:57
Speaker 1: made you all money, and it stopped the bill. At
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Speaker 1: that point in time, our governor, who was not kemp
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Speaker 1: and was like, you know, no, no, I would never
19:05
Speaker 1: let this happen. I would never let this happen, and
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Speaker 1: the bill died. Interestingly, no such rhetoric has happened since then.
19:13
Speaker 1: Disney had to be pushed into saying something after they
19:17
Speaker 1: were like, it's not a big deal. No, no, no no, no, oh,
19:20
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's a big deal. I'm so sorry that
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Speaker 1: you dismiss your concerns. But we have so many anti
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Speaker 1: lgbt Q bills, anti trans bills, uh, you know, anti
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Speaker 1: women bills, and no company, all the companies, including when
19:34
Speaker 1: we are very familiar with who is quartered in Texas,
19:40
Speaker 1: have yet to say anything. And yes, believe me, the
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Speaker 1: hypocrisy and how we feel. We have a lot of feelings.
19:50
Speaker 1: We have a lot of feelings. Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I've it's been heartbreaking and inspiring to see, like, you know,
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Speaker 1: employees at Disney or teachers in Florida are like have
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Speaker 1: these kind of open messages and um, just being really
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Speaker 1: a heartfelt and and why it's hurtful and bad and
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Speaker 1: why it matters that a company does have that power
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Speaker 1: and can do that can get a bill killed that
20:21
Speaker 1: shouldn't be there. Of course there's the flip side, which
20:24
Speaker 1: is also freaky. But you know, this is becoming a
20:28
Speaker 1: whole different thing. But I think it's also the like
20:33
Speaker 1: we've talked about that so many times. But just you know, look,
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Speaker 1: my my icon is rainbow colored. I'm supporting you, but
20:39
Speaker 1: you're giving this money to not that you're literally just
20:42
Speaker 1: profiting off of something when you're not really caring. And
20:45
Speaker 1: we've seen that too often when something is tokenized to
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Speaker 1: bedefit you and it is abhorrent. I hope that you
20:53
Speaker 1: stub your toe. Stop stopped. So is no laughing matter
20:58
Speaker 1: I shouldn't like, Okay, all right, Um, something else that's
21:17
Speaker 1: not a laughing matter is potentially overturing the legalization of
21:21
Speaker 1: gay marriage in the US because of what's going on
21:25
Speaker 1: with the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade Um just Toledo,
21:29
Speaker 1: who pends the draft opinion to overturn. Roe v. Wade
21:32
Speaker 1: also dissented on the decision legalizing gay marriage, So that's
21:38
Speaker 1: not good. A lot of gay folks have spoken out
21:41
Speaker 1: about how this feels so destabilizing for them that the
21:45
Speaker 1: legality of their relationship could just suddenly be revoked, and
21:49
Speaker 1: um Or planning on talking about this in a different episode.
21:51
Speaker 1: But there is of course discussion and disagreement in the
21:53
Speaker 1: gay community around gay marriage and whether or not marriage
21:56
Speaker 1: as a whole institution is something that needs to be
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Speaker 1: completely broken out and build back up. But we cannot
22:02
Speaker 1: deny marriage comes with no small amount of legal benefits
22:05
Speaker 1: in the US, especially around children, right um And the
22:09
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is also set to decide on a case
22:13
Speaker 1: in which a wedding website designer wants to refuse to
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Speaker 1: design for gay couples because it's against their religion, which
22:20
Speaker 1: many are calling discrimination, which I believe it is. UM
22:25
Speaker 1: And all of this, everything we're talking about, has had
22:28
Speaker 1: a measurable effect on mental health, especially for young people.
22:32
Speaker 1: And yeah, those numbers are really scary. According to some
22:35
Speaker 1: research from the Trevor Project, forty of the l g
22:39
Speaker 1: B t Q plus community have seriously considered suicide in
22:43
Speaker 1: the last year, um, and as in fact, the numbers
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Speaker 1: are jumping um about the knees for mental health access
22:51
Speaker 1: for the LGBTQ community, But sadly enough, they're afraid to
22:55
Speaker 1: get because being out means there our target and we
22:59
Speaker 1: all already know there's a lot of phobia in that
23:02
Speaker 1: world and within his own world. And then let's not
23:04
Speaker 1: talk about you know, if you're a person of color,
23:06
Speaker 1: what does that look like? If you're you know, what
23:09
Speaker 1: area are you from? Are you from the suburbs of
23:12
Speaker 1: Georgia where you feel like you don't have friends? Yeah? Yeah,
23:17
Speaker 1: it is um really frightening. And I mean, like going
23:22
Speaker 1: back to the anti chans walls that are trying to
23:27
Speaker 1: pass are the directive in Texas? Yeah, like you said,
23:32
Speaker 1: then maybe you're too afraid to get help because authorities
23:37
Speaker 1: can literally come after you. And these numbers, I mean
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Speaker 1: forty five percent and that's probably underreported, is Right's significant?
23:48
Speaker 1: That's huge, um, just as well as the fact that
23:51
Speaker 1: again the grooming rhetoric which has been exponentially placed out
23:58
Speaker 1: there and it's just being veiled over all of the
24:02
Speaker 1: quick community that is itself is a danger. We know
24:06
Speaker 1: what happens when tarms like that when it comes to children,
24:11
Speaker 1: what it what it does, And we've seen what happens
24:16
Speaker 1: when someone with the history of violence in general, typically
24:20
Speaker 1: towards the marginalized community, get angry and think they're doing
24:23
Speaker 1: a just fight. Yeah mm hmmm. And then I just
24:28
Speaker 1: wanted to mention here, we're not gonna go too deep
24:30
Speaker 1: into it, but there's been a lot of damaging irresponse
24:32
Speaker 1: for reporting around monkey poks uh in the queer community,
24:36
Speaker 1: which came up a lot in the articles that were like,
24:39
Speaker 1: please stop doing this, it's just hurting, it's making everything worse.
24:43
Speaker 1: So we did promise some good stuff that a lot
24:47
Speaker 1: of fast stuff. Uh, so you know, I love some
24:51
Speaker 1: good entertainment. Um twelve of series regulars in television shows.
24:58
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure that's correct anymore extreming shows are queer.
25:03
Speaker 1: Just still a small number, but it is up. Um
25:05
Speaker 1: some new and exciting representation we're seeing in things like
25:09
Speaker 1: our flag means death, which I have a little happy
25:12
Speaker 1: hour planned on to talk about soon. Uh. Stranger things
25:16
Speaker 1: because you have Robbin but a lot of people are
25:17
Speaker 1: talking about will potentially I don't know, we'll see, but
25:21
Speaker 1: please let us know if there are others that you
25:23
Speaker 1: listeners are really into because that is like I said,
25:27
Speaker 1: I got I find joy in these things. It makes
25:30
Speaker 1: me happy. Um. And I would love to hear I
25:33
Speaker 1: would love to hear if I'm missing any like amazing
25:36
Speaker 1: one on four l g pt Q plus politicians were
25:40
Speaker 1: elected into office in which is up. Um. And we
25:44
Speaker 1: know that that does impact policy, uh, as we talked
25:48
Speaker 1: about with abortion and the relationship between women in office
25:53
Speaker 1: and abortion. UM, so keep an eye on that um.
25:59
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's yeah, there's a lot of as bad
26:03
Speaker 1: as things are on the federal level, when it comes
26:06
Speaker 1: to the individual, we have seen amazing stories of love
26:10
Speaker 1: and uh support and that's of course what we want
26:14
Speaker 1: to constantly see. And yeah, we know that media does
26:18
Speaker 1: a great job, oh god ro media, big media does
26:23
Speaker 1: a great job in highlighting the worst, biggest news. But
26:27
Speaker 1: we do want to take that time to know that
26:29
Speaker 1: there are some amazing things and people are still good people.
26:32
Speaker 1: They're still good people out there, our listeners being some
26:35
Speaker 1: of them that truly have been fighting and continue to fight. UM.
26:41
Speaker 1: And as scary as the world is, there are people
26:44
Speaker 1: who are out there gonna rebel against the system to
26:49
Speaker 1: protect others and that there's always something to remember. You're
26:53
Speaker 1: not alone. No, UM, we see you, we love you.
26:57
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