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A punk band cancels a gig over a transgender toilet tussle · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: How queer. First though, a transgender punk band's cancelled a
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  Speaker 3: gig in Canada at the last minute, claiming the venue
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  Speaker 3: prevented one of its members from using the bathroom. Rougarou
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  Speaker 3: were setting up at the Sportsman's Club in Charlottetown when
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  Speaker 3: Marina Hanley needed to answer the call of nature. But
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  Speaker 3: she tells CBC, as she approached the female toilets, this happened.
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  Speaker 4: The bartender came up and taped up a little handwritten
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  Speaker 4: paper sign outside the door that said, ladies only, and said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we're very strict about this.
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  Speaker 3: Her bandmate and fiancé, George Finlay, ripped the sign down,
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  Speaker 3: kicked off with the bartender, and all members of Rougarou
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  Speaker 3: walked out. Drag queen Remedy was also due to perform.
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  Speaker 1: I just shake my head at the whole thing because
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  Speaker 1: there was going to be a show there. There was
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  Speaker 1: going to be business brought in and an amazing time
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  Speaker 1: to be had.
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  Speaker 3: Someone thought to be the manager of the sportsman's club
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  Speaker 3: says it does try to accommodate trans people, evidently. The
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  Speaker 3: band did actually perform that night with an impromptu jam
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  Speaker 3: session at a venue nearby. Pride Daily. Next, the return
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  Speaker 3: president of radical gender ideology. Pride Daily. And another male
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  Speaker 3: as many days. What's going on? Rayon Arao says he's
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  Speaker 3: gender of the people he's attracted to. The 25-year-old's been
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