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Harry Potter’s Wicked Grandma™ and the Transgender Lawmaker · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Pride Daily, Hi Death, I'm keV McGrath coming up Tommy
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  Speaker 1: Dorfman's transphobic text Part two. First, though, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if Harry Potter's Wicked Grandma was a fan of democracy
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  Speaker 1: before the weekend, but Scotland's parliamentary elections have seen a
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  Speaker 1: transgender candidate when a seat, and it's in the Edinburgh
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  Speaker 1: and Lothian Zeis region where the author lives.
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  Speaker 2: My name is doctor ku Manvan and I am a
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  Speaker 2: transgender Tamil immigrant. For my pronouns are they them? I
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  Speaker 2: am for some in this country, everything that the hit
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  Speaker 2: will despise. And I'm standing here as your MSP now
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  Speaker 2: with care. And this is what diversity looks like in power.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Q is one of two newly elected trans MSPs,
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  Speaker 1: both from the Green Party, Scotland's first transgender lawmakers and
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  Speaker 1: what with Grandma's well documented gender critical shall be absolutely
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  Speaker 1: cocker Hoop Pride Daily. Next. Gay Turkish singer Mabel Matise
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  Speaker 1: has been acquitted of obscenity over some of his lyrics,
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  Speaker 1: all to do with the track per Parisian, which prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: said indirectly incited sexual desire and contained erotic connotations. Translations vary,
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  Speaker 1: but I do hope this line's right. The devil in
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  Speaker 1: me says, jump on him, Let the bird fly to
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  Speaker 1: his nest. Mabel could have been jailed for up to
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  Speaker 1: three years Pride Daily, and after transgender actress Tommy Dorfman's
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  Speaker 1: recent encounter with a transphobe on a plane, she's now
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  Speaker 1: been in contact with him. The Thirteen Reasons Why Star
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  Speaker 1: could see the guy in the next seat texting some
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  Speaker 1: vile abuse of her, and videos she posted of him typing.
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  Speaker 1: The messages went viral.
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  Speaker 3: He has trans family members, He's speaking with his rabbi
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  Speaker 3: and trying to educate himself. And I believe that, I
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  Speaker 3: really and I think you know, shame isn't always the
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  Speaker 3: way to go for growth, but sometimes measures have to
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  Speaker 3: be taken.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy's now taking down the video and says she forgives him.
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