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Should a parent ever dispute their child’s queer truth? · PRIDE Daily

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Speaker 3: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, you suck. First up,
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Speaker 3: If a child comes out to their parents as LGBTQ +,
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Speaker 3: should the response ever be, you're wrong? All to do
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Speaker 3: with the conversation around plans to ban conversion practices in
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Speaker 3: the UK, so attempts to change someone's sexuality or gender identity, and, unbelievably,
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Speaker 3: the opposition to stopping this. Five years in prison and
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Speaker 3: unlimited fines are proposed for perpetrators, but there's claims from
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Speaker 3: certain quarters this could result in mums and dads being
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Speaker 3: locked up. Kathleen Stock is a gender-critical campaigner.
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Speaker 4: We need to allow parents to say, no, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 4: you're a girl, or even maybe, I'm sorry, I don't
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Speaker 4: think you're gay. I mean, it's just not a criminal
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Speaker 4: matter to have those conversations in good faith.
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Speaker 3: The government says it's targeting abuse and coercion, not regular parenting.
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Speaker 3: But lesbian Stock, who's been speaking to Times Radio, remains
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Speaker 3: concerned about the bill.
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Speaker 4: The definition of abuse doesn't require any intention. So even
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Speaker 4: a parent acting in total good faith and well-meaning, well-intentioned
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Speaker 4: could still count as abusive under the way this statute
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Speaker 4: is drafted.
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Speaker 3: Oh, is abuse OK if it's unintended? Anyway, there's one
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Speaker 3: final thought from her, which I found quite remarkable.
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Speaker 4: If somebody decides they're gay and, I mean, wants to
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Speaker 4: identify that way, wants to lean into that identity, as
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Speaker 4: it were, I'm not saying the feelings are a choice,
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Speaker 4: but the identity's a choice.
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Speaker 3: Say what now? The identity's a choice. It's a separate thing, apparently.
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Speaker 3: Good grief. In the past, conversion practices have included electric
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Speaker 3: shock therapy, corrective rape and praying the gay away. But
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Speaker 3: young victims seem to be secondary in the eyes of
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Speaker 3: some to protecting the rights of parents who want to
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Speaker 3: deny their child's truth. Next, 12 transgender women have been
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Speaker 3: arrested in the latest anti-LGBTQ plus police raids in Turkey.
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Speaker 3: Homes in Izmir in the west have been targeted over
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Speaker 3: claims of prostitution and also of setting up a criminal organisation.
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Speaker 3: No specifics beyond that though because of a confidentiality order.
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Speaker 3: That's convenient. Turkey launched the My Family is Safe operation
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Speaker 3: two months ago and it's seen about 200 arrests following
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Speaker 3: numerous raids on the likes of LGBTQ plus clubs and bars,
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Speaker 3: advocacy organisations and the homes of activists. The United Nations
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Speaker 3: says this has got to stop. And obviously you know
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Speaker 3: all about former top US wrestler Kurt Angle, but just
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Speaker 3: in case... He famously won gold in the sport at
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Speaker 3: the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, despite suffering a broken neck and
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Speaker 3: went on to become a massive name in WWE with
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Speaker 3: crowds chanting, you suck at him. This started as a diss,
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Speaker 3: but later became an affectionate thing. Anyway, this is an
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Speaker 3: overly long setup for the video Kurt's just recorded for
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Speaker 3: one of his fans.
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Speaker 5: I hear you just came out of the closet. I
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Speaker 5: just want to encourage you to be yourself. And your
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Speaker 5: Olympic hero wants to tell you that it's okay to
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Speaker 5: suck sometimes. And if you do suck, do it with intensity, integrity,
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Speaker 5: and intelligence. Oh, it's true. It's damn true.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I wrote all that preamble just to get the
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Speaker 3: innuendo in. That is the level of effort I'll go
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Speaker 3: to for a double entendre. You now have the measure
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Speaker 3: of me. Today's podcast is longer for that reason. You're welcome.
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Speaker 3: No time to tell you that. Even less time to
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Speaker 3: tell you that. America's Utah Queer Film Festival starts today.
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Speaker 3: In Argentina, it's Buenos Aires Pride Parade tomorrow, which is
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Speaker 3: also when Australia's Brisbane Pride Fair Day finally happens after
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Speaker 3: a two-week postponement. And homophobic online parasite H.S. Tiki Toki,
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Speaker 3: who famously said he'd disown his son if the boy
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Speaker 3: turned out to be gay, is holding a boxing event
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Speaker 3: in Ireland tomorrow night. So he's OK with men being
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Speaker 3: beaten about the ring, if there's money in it for him.
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