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- 0:50Speaker 2: I'm keV McGraw coming up. Good news for drag queens
- 0:54Speaker 2: in Denmark. A female only social media app that this
- 1:00Speaker 2: discriminated against a transgender woman now has to pay a
- 1:03Speaker 2: double the original compensation. Roxanne Tickle from New South Wales
- 1:08Speaker 2: in Australia was banned from Giggle for Girls in twenty
- 1:11Speaker 2: twenty one after the app CEO said she didn't look
- 1:15Speaker 2: female enough. Sal Grover appealed. Now our federal courts basically
- 1:20Speaker 2: said get lost and increase damages to twenty thousand dollars.
- 1:25Speaker 2: This is who we're dealing with.
- 1:27Speaker 3: I don't think there is such a thing as trans
- 1:28Speaker 3: I don't believe in the ideology at all. I think
- 1:30Speaker 3: it's all nonsense. I've looked at all the evidence, I've
- 1:33Speaker 3: observed it. None of this is real. It's all made up.
- 1:36Speaker 3: And so you're still just a man. And that's what
- 1:39Speaker 3: comes down to. It's just if they can make us
- 1:41Speaker 3: believe that men and women, they can make us believe anything,
- 1:43Speaker 3: and that terrifies me because what's the next thing.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Thanks to the Heretics podcast I listened, so you don't
- 1:48Speaker 2: have to also. Off the back of a counter appeal
- 1:52Speaker 2: by Roxann, what was deemed indirect discrimination is now ruled
- 1:56Speaker 2: direct discrimination. Grover plans to appeal again to the High Court.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Let it go Pride Daily. Next, a child's formally recognized
- 2:08Speaker 2: as having three parents, two dads and a mum in
- 2:11Speaker 2: illegal first for Italy. Long story short, authorities were blocking
- 2:16Speaker 2: one of the men from adopting the four year old,
- 2:19Speaker 2: wrongly saying the been a secret surrogacy arrangement, a process
- 2:23Speaker 2: that's banned in the country. One dad actually fathered the
- 2:26Speaker 2: child with a female friend. An appeal court's ordered formal acknowledgment.
- 2:31Speaker 2: The decisions angered conservative Catholics, but they're always angry, so
- 2:36Speaker 2: you know. Pride Daily and Drag Queens in Denmark are
- 2:41Speaker 2: protected by the country's hate speech law. Comes off the
- 2:45Speaker 2: back of a court case which has seen a man
- 2:48Speaker 2: find for calling a drag show for children pedophilia. Judges
- 2:52Speaker 2: have ruled what's known as the racism clause covers hatred
- 2:56Speaker 2: and humiliation linked to gender expression. No time to tell
- 3:01Speaker 2: you that Literature's Stellar Prize as its first non binary winner.
- 3:06Speaker 2: The Australian Award's gone to Lee Lie for a graphic
- 3:09Speaker 2: novel Canon Sundays the International Day against Homophobia, biphobia and Transphobia.
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