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Another Hong Kong Pride event bites the dust · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: Coming up... Do antidepressants cause homosexuality? Spoiler alert, no. First though,
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  Speaker 3: another Hong Kong Pride event bites the dust. Organisers of
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  Speaker 3: next month's Rainbow Market have been forced to cancel, having
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  Speaker 3: just been told the venue's unavailable due to an overlap
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  Speaker 3: in bookings. This, the latest in a number of queer
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  Speaker 3: events to be scrapped due to obstacles conjured up late
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  Speaker 3: in the day by the owners of venues and the authorities.
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  Speaker 3: It's why the last two Pink Dot festivals have been
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  Speaker 3: called off.
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  Speaker 2: I was supposed to perform this year in Pink Dot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand why it was cancelled. The future in
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  Speaker 2: Hong Kong for pride or being queer, it's very unclear.
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  Speaker 3: Drag performer Tony Leung speaking to CNN. Politics in Hong
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  Speaker 3: Kong's been getting more conservative, plus 2020's national security laws
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  Speaker 3: made getting approval for big outdoor protest events much more difficult. Next,
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  Speaker 3: a leaked report flags up fears of a number of
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  Speaker 3: negative impacts on transgender hospital patients off the back of
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  Speaker 3: new guidance from England's National Health Service. It was published
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  Speaker 3: last week and says trans people should be placed on
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  Speaker 3: single-sex wards that align with their biological sex. How that
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  Speaker 3: actually works in practice, God knows. Amongst other things, an
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  Speaker 3: NHS England impact assessment finds it could out people as transgender.
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  Speaker 3: Because of course it could. Delay access to healthcare. Because
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  Speaker 3: of course it could. And lead to patients being treated
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  Speaker 3: out in hospital corridors. Because of course it could. And
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  Speaker 3: if I tell you a lawmaker's claimed homosexuality is caused
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  Speaker 3: by antidepressants, guess which country's from?
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  Speaker 1: Is it America?
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  Speaker 3: Is it Russia? Is it America? Is it Russia? Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's Russia this time. with Vitaly Milanov saying this is
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons the medication shouldn't be prescribed as much.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of evidence he provided is equal to how
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  Speaker 3: much credibility this cretin possesses. Milanov's a well-known anti-queer bigot
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  Speaker 3: and brought in a ban on so-called LGBTQ plus propaganda
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  Speaker 3: in St. Petersburg that was later rolled out nationwide. No
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