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Harry Potter’s Wicked Grandma™ and the Transgender Lawmaker | PRIDE Daily’s Queer Cheer · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 5: the year so far, with some bonus queer cheer. Coming up,
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  Speaker 5: two lesbian nuns. First though, don't know if Harry Potter's
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  Speaker 5: wicked grandma was a fan of democracy before the weekend,
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  Speaker 5: but Scotland's parliamentary elections have seen a transgender candidate win
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  Speaker 5: a seat. And it's in the Edinburgh and Lothian Zeese
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  Speaker 5: region where the author lives.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Dr Akhil Manavanan. I am a transgender
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  Speaker 4: Tamil immigrant. My pronouns are they, them. I am, to
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  Speaker 4: some in this country, everything that the hateful despise. And
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  Speaker 4: this is what diversity looks like in power.
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  Speaker 5: Dr Q is one of two newly elected trans MSPs,
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  Speaker 5: both from the Green Party, Scotland's first transgender lawmakers, and
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  Speaker 5: what with grandma's well-documented gender-critical views, she'll be absolutely cock-a-hoop.
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  Speaker 5: Pride Daily Argentinian footballer Ignacio Largo has come out as gay,
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  Speaker 5: but it actually happened eight months ago. The colon de
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  Speaker 5: Santa Fe winger was on a TV show last year
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  Speaker 5: and a surprise video message was played to him. It
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  Speaker 5: featured his boyfriend, Gonzalo.
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  Speaker 3: Hey honey, I hope you like the surprise. All I
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  Speaker 3: can do is congratulate you and thank you for being
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  Speaker 3: such an excellent person. You're such a professional. I know
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  Speaker 3: the colours of my city.
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  Speaker 5: The clip's finally making headlines, even though it's been hiding
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  Speaker 5: in plain sight for absolutely ages. Largo's the first Argentine
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  Speaker 5: player to publicly come out. $ 90, 000 has been raised for
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  Speaker 5: a transgender student who it's claimed has been cut off
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  Speaker 5: by his parents after coming out. Matthew Enns had to
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  Speaker 5: lesbian nuns have sacked off life in the convent and
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  Speaker 5: got married. Francilia Costa and Luisa Silveira met in Brazil
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  Speaker 5: six years ago and they didn't actually get on at first.
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  Speaker 5: Each thought the other was stuck up. But after both
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  Speaker 5: suffered mental health issues, they quit the nunnery and ended
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  Speaker 5: up house-sharing as friends. Feelings started to be felt and
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