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The transgender student banned from running for Homecoming Queen · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: to right now. Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm Kev McGraw.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, five gay men in a polycule. First, though,
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  Speaker 1: a transgender student in America has been banned from running
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  Speaker 1: for homecoming queen but told she could try for homecoming king.
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  Speaker 1: Riley Williams from Charles R. Drew High in Georgia says
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  Speaker 1: it's all to do with state policy and the school
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  Speaker 1: district could lose government funding if it dares to be inclusive.
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  Speaker 1: Officials reckon the individual identities and expressions of students are
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  Speaker 1: recognised and respected. Riley's been speaking to Atlanta News First.
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  Speaker 3: People are behind me and people support me for who
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  Speaker 3: I am. Forcing me to run for something like homecoming
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  Speaker 3: king would invalidate my experience as a woman. Of course
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  Speaker 3: it's an unfair policy and to my understanding some people
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  Speaker 3: in the district don't agree with the policy. To me
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  Speaker 3: it just felt like them hiding behind it and hoping
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  Speaker 3: that I wouldn't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile a trans student's been elected as homecoming queen by
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  Speaker 1: classmates in Pennsylvania. There's been the predictable backlash, but everyone
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  Speaker 1: at Fairview High standing by Sammy with transphobic twerps being
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  Speaker 1: told to sit the hell down. Next, a state in
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  Speaker 1: Brazil moves to make sure gender identity is honoured after death.
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  Speaker 1: All to do with a woman who'd planned to make
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  Speaker 1: the necessary legal changes but wasn't able to complete the
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  Speaker 1: process before she died and was dead-named at a funeral
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  Speaker 1: and in the death certificate. all thanks to a transphobic
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  Speaker 1: estranged family. Queer advocates have got legal, and now the
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  Speaker 1: Court of Justice and the state of Pernambuco's ruled records
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  Speaker 1: can be rectified to preserve the identity, memory and dignity
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  Speaker 1: of trans people. And a new reality show follows the
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  Speaker 1: lives of five gay Asian men in San Francisco, all
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  Speaker 1: navigating a relationship with each other. One's enough for me,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. The Polycule sees Eric, Miltie, JJ, JC and
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  Speaker 1: Michael trying to deal with love, sex, communication and jealousy
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  Speaker 1: as a fivesome. It sounds exhausting. Oh, and as JJ
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  Speaker 1: points out, you've also got logistics in the mix. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to find a bed that can
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  Speaker 1: actually fit five of us? And where to store all
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  Speaker 1: the toilet rolls. No launch date for this as yet,
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  Speaker 1: but it's going to be on WOW Presents Plus. And
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  Speaker 1: the boys are already big on YouTube. as the Kewl Kids.
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  Speaker 1: No time to tell you that. Back in Brazil, another
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  Speaker 1: transgender woman's been elected to the Chamber of Deputies, the
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  Speaker 1: lower house of the National Congress. Tabata Pimenta will represent
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  Speaker 1: the state of Rio Grande do Norte. If you tell
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  Speaker 1: That's your lot. I'll see you tomorrow.