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- 0:51Speaker 2: Grande steps up for queer rights. First that the eighty
- 0:56Speaker 2: one year old nun who's helping Catholic parents in America
- 1:00Speaker 2: to support their transgender children. Sister Nancy Corcoran from the
- 1:05Speaker 2: Sisters of Saint Joseph of Corondola in Missouri has weekly
- 1:08Speaker 2: dinners where moms and dads get together. It's all about
- 1:12Speaker 2: how to affirm their kids so they can live their
- 1:14Speaker 2: best lives.
- 1:15Speaker 3: They come for supper at the mother House and they
- 1:18Speaker 3: sit around and they help one another. They share their story.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Sister Nancy was clueless about all things transgender till she
- 1:26Speaker 2: decided to educate herself a decade ago spent two years
- 1:30Speaker 2: traveling the US going to transconferences. Now she speaks up
- 1:35Speaker 2: on the failure of the Catholic Church to recognize gender transition.
- 1:39Speaker 3: I tell the parents, you know, as a Roman Catholic nun,
- 1:42Speaker 3: I say the Church is wrong. And I also let
- 1:45Speaker 3: my bishop know everything I'm doing.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Thanks to the Kelly Kittley podcast. Sister Nanci's archdiocese doesn't
- 1:52Speaker 2: officially endorse what she's doing, but it doesn't stand in
- 1:55Speaker 2: the way either. Missouri's estate that's passed lots of anti
- 1:59Speaker 2: trans law in the last few years, including attacks on
- 2:02Speaker 2: healthcare and bathroom use. Pride Daily Next, Ariana Grande has
- 2:07Speaker 2: launched the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation to support gay and
- 2:11Speaker 2: transgender rights. It'll also fundamental health services for queer people
- 2:17Speaker 2: and emergency support. The singer says the foundation is working
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