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Transgender In The Toilet | J K Rowling Uproar | The Other Side
Today, we delve into the sensitive issue of transgender identity. If you have X, or Facebook or similar, you will probably have noticed that Harry Potter author, JK Rowling has featured in numerous posts. She believes that trans issues impact women’s rights. And she opposes trans women going into women only spaces. She has criticised Scotland’s recent gender recognition law. And this has lead to her being regarded by some as transphobic – even leading to calls for a boycott of the Harry Potter franchise of books, movies and video games. What are the issues here?
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are refusing to charge her she has also
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said if they go after any woman for
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simply calling a man a man I'll repeat
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that woman's words and they can charge
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us both at once to soak in the
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wind many in the audience feel bags has
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an unfair advantage on the road to
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Victory the irony of course is that this
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will put it to the top of the bestseller
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listly the question we must address is
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why are we affirming the mental
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confusion of this boy and putting the
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safety of women in Jeopardy by allowing
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mentally confused men to use the women's
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space now she has been um a victim of
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councel culture there have been people
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calling for her publisher to drop her JK
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Rowling has been tweeting derogatory
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comments about trans people for some
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months
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now hello and welcome and today we are
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looking at that rather sensitive issue
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of transgender
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identity if you have X or Facebook you
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cannot have failed but to notice JK
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rowlings has been quite outspoken on
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this topic she believes that transgender
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issues can impact women's rights for
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example she opposes transgender women
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using womenon areas she's also
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criticized Scotland's recent gender
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recognition law
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which insists that we use the correct
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pronouns for transgender men and
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women JK rowlings has been accused of
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being transphobic and there have been
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calls for people to boycott the Harry
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Potter series of films books and video
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games Becky LX what are the issues here
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well it's quite simple really I stand
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with JK rolling on this matter
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it's absurd that expressing basic truths
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about biological sex can now be deemed
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illegal this isn't about transphobia
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it's about protecting free speech and
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acknowledging scientific facts but on
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the other hand the trans Community are
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constantly pushing for a whole raft of
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additional rights which if adopted
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impact upon the lives of people who have
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no gender challenges excuse me what are
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you doing in the women's bathroom I'm
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sorry what are you doing in the women's
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bathroom I'm pee okay but you're a man
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no yes you
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are you are clearly a man and you were
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just in the women's
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bathroom do you know how much money I
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PID for the school and now there's a man
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in my
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bathroom well you should talk to the
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administration oh I definitely
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will when it comes to transgender women
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using women's toilets and changing room
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facilities a 2023 ipso poll found that
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only 40% of people in Britain believe
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transgender people should be allowed to
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use single sex facilities such as public
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toilets that correspond to the gender
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they identify with how many people are
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transgender according to USA facts in
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the US the percentage of transgender
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individuals currently stands at
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1.03% in the UK according to a 2021
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census in answer to the question is the
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gender you identify with the same as
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your sex registered at Birth 0.5% of the
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respondents answered no well biological
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facts are one thing but how a person
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feels is another for example if you feel
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that you are a man trapped inside a
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woman's
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body well that's heartbreaking isn't it
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shouldn't society as a whole feel more
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empathy or be more sympathetic towards
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people in this kind of situation of
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course and in general in Western Society
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we are accepting at the end of the day
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we are all people and we should all
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accept everyone's right to be whatever
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gender they may wish to have it's not
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the same in every country around the
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world but certainly in the US UK and EU
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there are already numerous laws in place
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to protect people from discrimination on
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the basis of their
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gender but the UK government doesn't
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recognize the trans Community does it
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it does the gender recognition act 2004
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enables a person to change the sex
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recorded on their birth certificate
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either from male to female or vice versa
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but it makes no provision for the
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recognition of any other gender the term
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trans can have a wider meaning but for
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example non-binary genders are not
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recognized in UK law but according to a
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2023 statement by the foreign
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Commonwealth and development office
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human rights are Universal and should
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apply equally to all people quote we are
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fundamentally opposed to all forms of
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discrimination and work to uphold the
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rights and freedoms of lesbian gay
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bisexual and transgender LGBT plus
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people in all
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circumstances you mentioned that one of
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the issues is Free Speech can you give
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an example of how that might be affected
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imagine this in places like Scotland
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certain speech about gender identity is
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now classified as hate or discrimination
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it's like putting a muzzle on free
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expression people might hesitate to
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speak their minds or be continuously
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tripping up on pronoun use if
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regulations Force specific pronouns for
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transgender individuals it's like
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handcuffing freedom of speech especially
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for those with religious or
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philosophical objections so instead of
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he or she some might prefer they or
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think about a person who transitioned
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from male to female wanting to be
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addressed as she it's a Hot Topic
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sparking debate and discussions
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everywhere JK Rowling has received
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criticism and a backlash for her views
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on transgender issues and just recently
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she criticized the inclusion of five
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transgender players in Australia's
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flying bats football team what's wrong
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with transgender players playing sports
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games the controversy comes in terms of
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unfair Advantage I think few could have
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any objection to someone who
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transitioned from a woman to a man
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playing in a men's team but the flying
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bats team won the final of the barel
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acro cup 4 to0 after a dominant run and
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this sparked outrage from football fans
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and led to 20 female players quitting
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one team in
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protest what about the
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Olympics the Olympic Committee has
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agreed to allow the ruling bodies of
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each country to decide if the inclusion
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of a trans athlete in their team is fair
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so as an example in the US transgender
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women are now barred from playing in
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global netball competitions by World
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netball this new policy aims to ensure
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Fair participation this decision
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coincides with the countdown to the
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Paris Olympics and how are different
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ruling bodies managing this well in the
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case of American swimmer Leah Thomas she
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has not swam in a women's race since
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World Aquatics introduced new rules in
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2022 which prohibit anyone who has
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undergone any part of male puberty from
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the female category before then
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transgender women were able to compete
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if they lowered their testosterone
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levels Becky what is the future for
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transgender athletes here's the harsh
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truth transgender women athletes will
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never I repeat never compete in women's
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games without stirring up a storm of
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controversy and objection look at What's
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Happening Now across all sports they
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have an unfair advantage and let's not
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forget the inevitable introduction of
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hormone therapy steroids and a whole
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cocktail of drugs into the sporting
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arena is that right sporting authorities
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are on a mission to eradicate these
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substances from the playing field so the
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sooner Humanity just faces these facts
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the
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better but there must be a solution
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transgender people want recognition
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right well why not Grant transgender
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athletes the recognition they seek in
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its entirity let's imagine a world where
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new competitions Bloom within the
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Olympic Arena tailored specifically for
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transgender athletes imagine the
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excitement of woman to man and
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man-to-woman competitions each overseen
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and organized by the very individuals
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they represent and then picture this
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cascading down to Grassroots levels
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where these competitions seed and
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flourish much like the Journey of
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women's football rugby and the
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paralympic
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movement but surely this has already
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been tried in Berlin in 2023 the world
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Aquatics put on a race for transgender
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swimmers but it had to be cancelled
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because nobody applied to
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enter yes you're right well you tell me
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this if a zebra wanted to take part in a
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horse race would that raise any
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difficulties for the
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organizers and if the zebra then stated
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that though it looked like a zebra it
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was really a racehorse but just needed
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some performance enhancing drugs in
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order to feel like a real Thoroughbred
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and so the organizers relent and allow
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the zebra to run and Against All Odds
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the zebra comes to win every race it
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takes part in wouldn't that be a problem
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would there ever come a time when that
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wasn't a problem so it seems that the
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intelligent solution is a race for
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zebras
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absolutely if I could just mention a
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yugov poll conducted in the UK in 2022
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found that the public are strongly
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opposed to trans women athletes
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participating in women's sporting events
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by 61% versus just 16% who are
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supportive well that brings us to the
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end our next topical discussion is right
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here see you next time bye-bye