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Two women who tortured and killed transgender man Sam Norquist are jailed for life · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, the school anti-hate
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  Speaker 2: guidance being de-queered. First though, two women who've tortured and
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  Speaker 2: killed a transgender man in America have got life in
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  Speaker 2: prison without parole. Sam Norquist was held in a motel
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  Speaker 2: room for a month early last year by seven people.
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  Speaker 2: He was caged, starved, beaten, sexually assaulted, covered in bleach,
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  Speaker 2: forced to drink urine and eat excrement. The 24-year-old's body
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  Speaker 2: was later found in a field in Ontario County, New York.
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  Speaker 2: Ringleader Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Chiano both admitted a number
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  Speaker 2: of charges, including first-degree murder.
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  Speaker 1: This is the type of case that nightmares come from.
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  Speaker 1: This is the worst of the worst. The depravity of
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  Speaker 1: this case, what Sam went through, what they did to Sam,
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  Speaker 1: is deplorable and disgusting, inhuman. It's not human. Someone held
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  Speaker 1: against their will and systemically tortured for weeks on end
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  Speaker 1: is not common.
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  Speaker 2: Local district attorneys James Nobles and Sarah Van Strydonk Sam
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  Speaker 2: had met Arzuaga on TikTok and thought she was his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: Of the four other people involved, two have pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 2: to second-degree murder. The remaining three are due to go
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  Speaker 2: on trial. Next, a transgender woman who was raped in
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  Speaker 2: Austria was then turned away by two hospitals because of
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  Speaker 2: her gender identity. And Viola only got treatment at a
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  Speaker 2: third hospital after police piled on the pressure. Actually happened
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  Speaker 2: in May, but she's now decided to go public, says
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  Speaker 2: one doctor asked her, if we look between your legs,
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  Speaker 2: what will we find? She's filed criminal charges against all
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  Speaker 2: the hospitals. And guidance for how schools in South Korea
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  Speaker 2: should respond to hate and discrimination has had LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 2: references removed. Earlier drafts of a new guidebook specifically mention
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  Speaker 2: sexual orientation and gender identity, but the final version doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: It's thought this is because of the fear of complaints
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  Speaker 2: from right-wingers and Bible bashers. No time to tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: Australia's Newcastle Pride Festival Fair Day has been paused till
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  Speaker 2: next year. Organisers say they've struggled to raise the money
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