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Transgender for Dummies · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Pride Daily. Hi there. I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, Chapel
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  Speaker 1: Roan's spectacular support. First up, The next time you hear someone,
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  Speaker 1: most likely a boneheaded bigot, say they don't understand how
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  Speaker 1: someone can be transgender, play them this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand aerospace engineering. That doesn't mean that I
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  Speaker 3: am sprinting down the airport runway telling all the planes
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  Speaker 3: that they can't take off because I don't understand, right?
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand how this shoe is manufactured. Couldn't even
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  Speaker 3: tell you the first step in the manufacturing process. Doesn't
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  Speaker 3: stop me from lacing up a pair of shoes every day.
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  Speaker 1: Mean but true podcast. Suzanne Lambert absolutely ruddy nailing it
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  Speaker 1: And the US comedian's not finished.
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  Speaker 3: If someone says, if you call me this name and
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  Speaker 3: this pronoun, which is authentic and true to who I am,
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  Speaker 3: I feel really happy and I feel good and I
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  Speaker 3: feel normal. And if you call me this name and
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  Speaker 3: this pronoun, which is not authentic to who I am
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  Speaker 3: and to my soul, it makes me feel awful and
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  Speaker 3: it actually kind of makes me want to kill myself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to call you the first one. I
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  Speaker 3: don't have to understand it.
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  Speaker 1: She also points out there are loads of people who
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  Speaker 1: go by a name that isn't on their birth certificate.
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  Speaker 1: You see how simple this stuff is? Next, for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, two men in Mali have been jailed for
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  Speaker 1: having gay sex. The pair each given a year inside
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  Speaker 1: for unnatural acts, with half the sentence suspended under a
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  Speaker 1: newish law introduced in December 2024. Gay sex is now
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  Speaker 1: classified as indecent assault by the West African country. In
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  Speaker 1: recent years, nations across the continent have been decimating queer rights.
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  Speaker 1: And Chapel Roan's recent LGBTQ plus fundraising gigs in Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles have raised $ 2 million. The lesbian singers to Super
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  Speaker 1: Graphic Spectacular Nights were in support of a Midwest Princess project,
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  Speaker 1: which helps transgender youth and queer people more generally. This
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  Speaker 1: has already raised $ 800, 000 in the last year. The concerts
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  Speaker 1: last month featured Christina Aguilera and Lily Young. No time
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that. More than 150,000 people have turned
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  Speaker 1: out for this year's Taiwan Pride in the capital, Taipei,
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  Speaker 1: with nearly 4,000 at Trans Pride there. And Queensland and
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  Speaker 1: Australia's got its first out gay governor, Thomas Bradley. His partner,
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  Speaker 1: Dr Matthew Young, joined him at the swearing-in ceremony. Leave
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  Speaker 1: us a review, please, and be nice. That's your lot.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you tomorrow.