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A transgender girl’s bullied out of an Irish dancing competition in Florida · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: I'm keV McGrath coming up. A major city loses its
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  Speaker 2: only gay bar. First though, a transgender girl's been bullied
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  Speaker 2: out of an Irish dancing competition in Florida. Radical right
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  Speaker 2: wing rednecks reckon she would have had an unfair advantage
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  Speaker 2: over the others in the female category and the threatened
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  Speaker 2: from the North American Irish Dance Championships in Orlando. The
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  Speaker 2: I was proud to pass this bill in Florida. Men
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  Speaker 2: are men, women are women, and they need to when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to athletic competition, they need to be kept apart.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to Fox thirty five Orlando, Previously, Irish dancing competitors
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  Speaker 2: have been allowed in categories that align with their gender identity.
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