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A ban on conversion therapy is debated by lawmakers in Tasmania · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, sexist transphobes. First, though,
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  Speaker 3: a ban on conversion practices is finally being debated today
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  Speaker 3: by lawmakers in Tasmania. It's taken 10 years of efforts
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  Speaker 3: from advocacy groups, allies and survivors of this abuse to
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  Speaker 3: bring the issue to Parliament in the Australian state. Tasmania
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  Speaker 3: is one of the last parts of the country where
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  Speaker 3: it's still legal to attempt to change or suppress a
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  Speaker 3: person's sexuality or gender identity.
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  Speaker 4: One of the basic premises is that you are deeply
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  Speaker 4: flawed and that you need to be fixed. And I
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  Speaker 4: still struggle with that very much.
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  Speaker 1: I was unable to attend most of my year nine
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  Speaker 1: schooling due to how badly it affected me mentally. Still today,
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm affected by it.
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  Speaker 3: Survivors Glenn Worrell and Bronwyn Larkin speaking to ABC News.
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  Speaker 3: The conversion practices prohibition bills, the work of Australia's Green Party.
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  Speaker 3: Of the other two areas without a ban, Western Australia's
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  Speaker 3: working on one, while the Northern Territory has no plans whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: Pride Daily. Next, sexist people are more likely to be
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  Speaker 3: in favour of transgender sports bands. So says a study
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  Speaker 3: by the University of Massachusetts in America, which asked questions
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  Speaker 3: to assess whether an individual's a big old knuckle-dragger, including
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  Speaker 3: are women too easily offended and do women seek to
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  Speaker 3: gain power by getting control over men? About 80% of
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  Speaker 3: those found to be the most sexist wanted no trans
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  Speaker 3: competitors in women's sports. The research queries whether this can
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  Speaker 3: truly be about protecting females then, when those most supportive
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  Speaker 3: are also most hostile to women. And a transgender man
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  Speaker 3: and his wife are having a baby using his eggs
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  Speaker 3: and her womb. Taylor and Chloe Winters from Watford in
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  Speaker 3: the UK have successfully conceived through in vitro fertilisation after
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  Speaker 3: having his eggs frozen before he transitioned. With the help
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  Speaker 3: of a sperm donor, Chloe got pregnant on their second
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  Speaker 3: attempt to IVF back in May and they're due to
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  Speaker 3: be having a girl in January. We're also on your
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