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Monday Mini: Anti-LGBTQ Laws · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't go to Stephane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told you, but actually I heart rate you. So
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  Speaker 1: for this Monday Many, we wanted to put a date
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  Speaker 1: on it, which I actually think we should start doing
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  Speaker 1: pretty often because things change pretty quickly. It's true something's change,
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  Speaker 1: but not all the things. There's so many cyclical things
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  Speaker 1: that I keep looking at, like new posts or new articles,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, didn't we talk about this five years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Why are we still talking about this? So, yes, things change,
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  Speaker 1: but not the whole thing. Time is a flat circle.
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  Speaker 1: You're really embodying Matthew McConaughey right now. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of good and bad that's happening, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we're just going in the same cycles. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I know I've shared the story before, but my AP
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  Speaker 1: World history teacher used to say time is like a slinky,
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  Speaker 1: where it's always in circles, but slightly moving ahead with
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  Speaker 1: every iteration. Slinkies also tangle up and just go into
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  Speaker 1: a giant ball. I feel like we're really showcasing our
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  Speaker 1: personal outlooks somethings perhaps, But what is today's date and
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  Speaker 1: what is it is? June twenty three one. So as
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  Speaker 1: we're coming to the end of Pride Month, we thought
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  Speaker 1: we would look at some anti lgbt Q plus legislation
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  Speaker 1: in the US around the world. So trigger warning if
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to get into Danny thing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say too upsetting, but but just like if
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  Speaker 1: you really don't want to hear this right now, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing about Yes, and these are definitely things
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  Speaker 1: that we want to keep an eye on. Uh. And
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  Speaker 1: it's something that's been making international headlines recently when Hungary
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  Speaker 1: announced earlier in June that they were prohibiting queer entertainment
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  Speaker 1: and content for young people. This law passed on fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven to one in Hungary's National Assembly. It was framed
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  Speaker 1: as a way to combat pedophilia. Thousands protested in response
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  Speaker 1: to the proposed and later passed bill. So we recently
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  Speaker 1: discussed the wave of proposed legislations against transgender people and
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  Speaker 1: specifically transgender youths when it comes to things like participating
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  Speaker 1: in sports, locker room use and things such as that.
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  Speaker 1: And again, these are things we continue to see and
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  Speaker 1: which is why I'm like, why are we talking about
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  Speaker 1: this still? Right? Yes? Um? And There are currently hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of bills that have been filed on the US restricting
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  Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus rights across the United States, making this potentially
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  Speaker 1: the worst year for lgbt Q plus rights since when
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  Speaker 1: fifteen bills were made into law. We're only halfway through
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  Speaker 1: the year and eight have been enacted into law and
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  Speaker 1: ten are just one signature away. Most of the eight
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  Speaker 1: that have been made into law have been specifically focused
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  Speaker 1: on transgender minors. So Alabama, Timasee, Msissippi in Arkansas have
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  Speaker 1: put laws into place preventing trans use from participating in
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  Speaker 1: school sports on teams that match their gender identity. In
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  Speaker 1: South Dakota to executive orders prohibit trans girls from being
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  Speaker 1: a part of girls sports teams, and experts say that
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  Speaker 1: the states recently signed religious freedom bill will allow for
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  Speaker 1: discrimination against the queer community. So Arkansas recently enacted a
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  Speaker 1: law that gives doctors the right to refuse treatment based
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  Speaker 1: on their morals or religion, and a law banning transition
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  Speaker 1: treatment options for miners goes into effect soon. Another bill
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  Speaker 1: in North Dakota could allow for student groups that receive
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  Speaker 1: any state funding to refuse entry to trans use based
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  Speaker 1: on free speech. Yeah, some Other laws prevent changing the
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  Speaker 1: gender markers on birth certificates until the person seeking to
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  Speaker 1: do so has undergone gender affirming surgery. Others would require
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  Speaker 1: a guardian signature for any proposed content around sexual identity
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  Speaker 1: and orientation in the school curriculum. Another in Tennessee proposes
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that students have access to quote reasonable accommodations
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  Speaker 1: if they don't want to share restoring with trans students.
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  Speaker 1: Texas and Tennessee have the most anti lgpd Q plus
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  Speaker 1: legislation on the table this year so far. So some
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  Speaker 1: of these bills have been vetoed often things to the efforts.
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  Speaker 1: And when we say efforts, we meant fights, we mean
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  Speaker 1: real fights. They're fighting real hard of activists and advocates
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  Speaker 1: to fight discrimination and misinformation. And it's worth noting that
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  Speaker 1: a recent poll found two thirds of Americans were against
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  Speaker 1: these bills targeting trans people. But this push is obviously
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  Speaker 1: very concerning, uh, and not to mention how harmful that
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  Speaker 1: these are and who they impact. And it's not just
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  Speaker 1: the trans community. Is affecting the trans community pointedly obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but it harms everyone. Just again, like this is not
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  Speaker 1: just about one group of people, and it's not just
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  Speaker 1: about one community. This is hurting the whole. I just
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  Speaker 1: feel like that needs to be said. And they're contributing
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  Speaker 1: to a wave of anti trans violence, specifically in a
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  Speaker 1: year that has already seen at least fifteen murders, and
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  Speaker 1: the numbers keep increasing, the attacks keep increasing, and it's
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  Speaker 1: very very alarming and really sad. And I hate that
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  Speaker 1: we're still talking about this. I hate that after a
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  Speaker 1: small amount of time that we got to celebrate with
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  Speaker 1: our trans community and the people in that community, that
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  Speaker 1: we're back to where one it feels like, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's very exhausting and frustrating and just infuriating because
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  Speaker 1: to me, and I would imagine to most of ours,
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  Speaker 1: probably all of our audience, it feels not only hateful,
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  Speaker 1: but a waste of time of like why right? Why prevent?
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  Speaker 1: Why uphold this binary and then prevent people from participating
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  Speaker 1: in sports and like sports for children, like what right?
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  Speaker 1: To the point that it becomes harmful. When we talk
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  Speaker 1: about doing the general confirming test types of things biology
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  Speaker 1: testing on UH and checking for genitalia essentially on younger kids,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot imagine the trauma of being even told let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the overall fight for any young person adult
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  Speaker 1: being like, I need to check you out point blank,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell are you kidding me? Like, that's in
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  Speaker 1: itself a conversation of why. And then a majority of
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  Speaker 1: the times when these bills are even in conversation or
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  Speaker 1: even being presented, and the counters, can you name one area,
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  Speaker 1: one school, one city where this has been an issue?
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  Speaker 1: And they couldn't. They couldn't, It's not been an issue.
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  Speaker 1: Their fearmongering to discriminate ahead of time. I just can't.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't. And the level of permission that they're
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  Speaker 1: giving to the outside beyond the government of eliciting this
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  Speaker 1: type of fearmongering among the community and causing havoc and
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  Speaker 1: causing violence and causing deaths because of this type of attitude. Yeah, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: and there have been you know, we were focusing mostly
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  Speaker 1: on the negative in this episode, but there have been
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  Speaker 1: some positives for sure, And we've been touching on some
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  Speaker 1: of the people making that possible and fighting for it
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  Speaker 1: and in women around the world, for instance, and that's
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  Speaker 1: just so inspiring. But yeah, these are things, these are
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  Speaker 1: very concerned and we need to keep or eye on
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  Speaker 1: them and not let these things happen under our our
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  Speaker 1: watch right and speaking of good things, uh, definitely having
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  Speaker 1: the first openly trans competitor at Olympics. Laurel Hubbard from
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand will be competing as the first trans competitor.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck and we're excited to see you. Yes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And if there are any other examples people we should highlight,
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  Speaker 1: laws we should highlight. Please, I'll let us know. You
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