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US basketball’s Sophie Cunningham hops aboard the culture war clown car · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: A cast Classics. Carrie Jade Does Not Exist is a
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  Speaker 1: story of how one woman who took on over six
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  Speaker 1: different identities infiltrated the lives of vulnerable people and lied
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  Speaker 1: her way into gaining their trust.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like she has his rare gift of being
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  Speaker 2: able to ascertain the exact hopes and dreams of a community.
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  Speaker 1: She offers them exactly that and meant just bails. This
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  Speaker 1: series tells a story of how Carrie Jade built up
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  Speaker 1: a picture perfect persona until she finally got handled up
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  Speaker 1: in her own web of lives. Find out more about
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  Speaker 1: Carrie Jade Does Not Exist at acast dot Com, Forward Slash, Classics.
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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kevin McGrath coming up why
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  Speaker 2: trans people in Pakistan are protesting? First, though, a rally
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  Speaker 2: in support of a US women's basketball player who's decided
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  Speaker 2: to gob off about transgender athletes has attracted hardly anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Sophie Cunningham from Indiana Fever has taken a seat in
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  Speaker 2: the culture war clown car saying trans females should be
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  Speaker 2: banned from female sports. After lots of criticism, there's been
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  Speaker 2: what's generously described as a sparse gathering outside Seattle's Climate
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  Speaker 2: Pledge arena ahead of a game that saw a booed
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  Speaker 2: the venues home to opponents Seattle Storm. Their head coach
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  Speaker 2: is Sonia armand we.
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  Speaker 3: Always want to be an area where people feel welcome
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  Speaker 3: coming into this building. I think we've always done a
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  Speaker 3: really good job with that. So I know our organization
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  Speaker 3: was working closely with Climate Pledge and with security to
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  Speaker 3: just make sure that you know, everybody feels safe and
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  Speaker 3: included and welcome when they walk in the store. And
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  Speaker 3: from what I understand, that was successful.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to Cairo News Radio Indiana fever Reckon. Neither the
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  Speaker 2: team nor Cunningham knew the demo was happening. She wasn't
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  Speaker 2: made available for post match interviews. Pride Daily Next. Transgender
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  Speaker 2: people in Pakistan have been protesting in Karachi against rocketing
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  Speaker 2: price is in the country, inflation's way above target, about
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  Speaker 2: double and this hits harder if he trans there because
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  Speaker 2: discrimination means less decent job opportunities, so lower incomes, plus
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  Speaker 2: those rejected by family can't look to them for support.
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  Speaker 2: There's also concerns the cost of living could affect the
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  Speaker 2: charity many transgender people rely on to survive. Pride Daily
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  Speaker 2: and Argentina's gender identity law has been fully reinstated, in
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  Speaker 2: a massive humiliation for the country's bigoted president. Javia Malay,
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  Speaker 2: who looks like Wolverine's been electrocuted, had outlawed hormone treatment
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  Speaker 2: for under eighteens, but a court's just ruled this was unconstitutional.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the final word on this could still be challenged,
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  Speaker 2: but for now it means transgender kids can access the
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  Speaker 2: health care they need. There's more on our socials at
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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily Pod, including any breaking use that you lot.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you next week.