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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKF Daily with Me

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Speaker 1: your Girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.

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Speaker 1: Last month, I had the great pleasure to join LGBTQ

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Speaker 1: people from across the country at the National Task Force

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Speaker 1: Creating Change Conference in New Orleans. And the National LGBTQ

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Speaker 1: Task Force works on a myriad of issues to bring

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Speaker 1: equity injustice to the LGBTQ community, and at the Creating

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Speaker 1: Change Conference, I sat on panels with queer gen zers

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Speaker 1: that are working in states like Florida in order to

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Speaker 1: overturn some of DeSantis' most draconian policies that target trans youth,

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Speaker 1: with everyone from religious figures to grassroots activists to transactivists

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Speaker 1: in battleground states to get a sense of what does

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Speaker 1: fighting look like on the ground. Oftentimes we hear and

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Speaker 1: see the headlines, but we don't really know who are

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Speaker 1: those people that are staying in these states that are

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Speaker 1: fighting right while the rest of us kind of move on.

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Speaker 1: And so the LGBTQ Task Force has launched their Queer

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Speaker 1: the Vote campaign leading up to the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: election to get as many queer Americans registered to vote

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Speaker 1: involved in our electoral politics and have used their advocacy

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Speaker 1: lens to educate as many people as possible about their

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Speaker 1: power and to utilize the collective power of the queer

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Speaker 1: or vote. So in a fantastic series over the next

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Speaker 1: the activists that I spoke to on the ground in

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Speaker 1: our Queer the Vote series that we're going to run

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Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks, and you'll be hearing

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Speaker 1: from folks in battleground states about what is at stake,

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Speaker 1: what they need support in in order to get the

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Speaker 1: job done, and the job done being that you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't turn America into a fascistic authoritarian dictatorship because

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Speaker 1: we are apathetic, or because we are tired, or because

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Speaker 1: you know Biden is not perfect, and trust me, he

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Speaker 1: is fucking not. But at the end of the day, folks,

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Speaker 1: I know what is at stake, and it's either we

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Speaker 1: vote for democracy or we vote for fascism. I will

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Speaker 1: keep saying it until the election is done and democracy

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Speaker 1: still stands. That we are not voting for a per

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Speaker 1: We are voting for our freedoms to continue. In that

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Speaker 1: some elections are just about holding on. So coming up

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Speaker 1: next is my conversation with Jen Scott from Equality Ohio

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Speaker 1: to talk about what is happening in that battleground state

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Speaker 1: and how Equality Ohio is going up against some of

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Speaker 1: the most egregious policies directed specifically at trans youth and

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Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community folks. I am so excited to be

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Speaker 1: joined on WOKF Daily by Jen Scott, who is a

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Speaker 1: statewide field director at Equality Ohio, an LGBTQ organization that

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Speaker 1: is working to advance equity and justice for folks in

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Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. Jen, we're right now at Creating Change.

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Speaker 1: The Creating Change LGBTQ task Force puts on this conference

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Speaker 1: every year, and this is a big year. It's twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, and you know, we are ten months away

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Speaker 1: from the most consequential election of our time. I want

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Speaker 1: to get a sense from you, what is the vibe

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Speaker 1: on the ground in Ohio. How are you feeling? How

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Speaker 1: is a quality Ohio feeling and dealing with this increasingly

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Speaker 1: fractious hardisan you know, divide that we're experiencing right now.

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Speaker 2: That's a great question and it's changing daily. The landscape

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Speaker 2: has shifted over the last six months last year, the

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Speaker 2: Reproductive Rights Coalition put together a ballot issue to protect

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Speaker 2: reproductive rights after the fall of Dobs. So there's a

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Speaker 2: petition statewide to add constitutional protection for reproductive rights, and

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Speaker 2: there was pushback. Prior to this, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: Yes Yes.

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Speaker 2: This campaign really energized the base to come out and

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Speaker 2: say we want bodily autonomy, we want to be able

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Speaker 2: to control our healthcare choices. Opposition was concerned that this

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Speaker 2: was actually going to pass, so in August they held

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Speaker 2: amendment that was going to be going in November. So

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Speaker 2: they tried to make it more difficult for the November

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Speaker 2: ballot issue for reproductive rights to pass. They spent twenty

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Speaker 2: million dollars on this special election with only one question

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Speaker 2: Ohioans came out and voted and voted no on that issue.

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Speaker 2: Then in November they voted yes to reproductive rights. So

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Speaker 2: that has changed the landscape in Ohio from a view

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Speaker 2: of solidly read to oh people care about bodily autonomy

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Speaker 2: Ohio has a two year general Assembly, so anything they

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Speaker 2: they don't pass things. But they actively worked to get

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Speaker 2: they came back and said, oh, we need to get

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Speaker 2: something done that shows that we're making progress for them.

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Speaker 1: So progress for the progress for everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, bad phrasing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, but it's true for them, that is progress.

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Speaker 1: Right to be able to rescind rights and protections and

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Speaker 1: make a target, particularly of the trans community, which I

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Speaker 1: look at what we're doing. Right, look at what we're doing,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like what we see with these states,

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Speaker 1: as their patriot dish. Let us test out how far

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Speaker 1: we can go in terms of abusing this community before

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Speaker 1: anybody does anything about it, before there is any type

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Speaker 1: of collective pushback. And do you think now, because of

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Speaker 2: That's what we're seeing. So they pushed through the HB

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Speaker 2: Governor's desk. Governor DeWine vetoed it and sent it back

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Speaker 2: House has already voted to override his veto. The Senate

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Speaker 2: is going to be hearing it later today. My coworkers

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Speaker 2: and go into law. In addition to that, an unexpected

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, Governor Dwine issued new rules for agencies

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Speaker 2: when it came to healthcare, and they're still analyzing. Experts

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Speaker 2: are still analyzing what these rule changes will mean because

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Speaker 2: of the way the wording is. It's similar to what

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Speaker 2: we're seeing across the country. Very vague, very broad wording

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Speaker 2: that's not well thought out. Even if they are trying

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Speaker 2: not because the wording is so vague, and it's going

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Speaker 2: and could have broader implications. The more medical experts look

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Speaker 2: it could affect others in the community as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, when you say that the legislation could affect trans adults,

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Speaker 1: are we talking about access to hormones? Are we talking

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Speaker 1: about access to care? Can you just dig in for

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Speaker 2: Potentially? Some of the rules specify the eighteen to twenty

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Speaker 2: similar to the trap laws we saw with reproductive rights,

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Speaker 2: some of the rules require multiple medical professionals and professions

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Speaker 2: that are in limited availability we already might We already

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Speaker 2: know there's problems accessing healthcare in general right, let alone

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Speaker 1: When you look at the success that abortion had in

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Speaker 1: same tactics that can be used as it pertains to

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Speaker 1: the right Do you feel like are they more successful

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Speaker 1: in terms of demonizing the community so that there are

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Speaker 2: It's a great question. Higowans have made it clear that

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Speaker 2: they want bodily autonomy. They want to be able to

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Speaker 2: decide their healthcare choices. Abortion we've been talking about for decades.

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Speaker 2: People are more familiar with it, people have been are

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Speaker 2: more comfortable now having conversations with their family about their

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Speaker 2: We're enabling our community to talk about it, and we've

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Speaker 2: folks are more comfortable talking about this issue. Part of

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Speaker 2: the role we play at a quality of how it

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Speaker 2: is educating the community, the larger public community as well

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Speaker 2: as members of the LGBTQ plus community that don't necessarily

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Speaker 2: feel comfortable sharing, feel safe sharing in an environment like Ohio,

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Speaker 2: and explaining what it actually is and what it is not.

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Speaker 2: Legislators and politicians are very good at demonizing, stigmatizing, giving

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Speaker 2: that quick, short sound bite that sounds great on you know, newscasts,

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Speaker 2: but really is based in misinformation, based in fear, and

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Speaker 2: doesn't address in any way medical or science based information.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is is that I feel the same

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Speaker 1: way that Women's March and different advocacy groups for pregnant people,

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Speaker 1: for people with uteruses being able to say you're a politician,

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Speaker 1: not a doctor. I don't want you in my uterus,

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Speaker 1: And so I wonder do you feel like, obviously your

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Speaker 1: But I'm like, do they need to be educated on

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Speaker 1: why should the onus? I guess is my thinking be

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Speaker 1: people with uteruses? To walk you through my trauma? Shouldn't

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Speaker 1: it be enough that I've made a decision about my life,

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Speaker 1: Like shouldn't that be the education that we're doing?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? And I wish we lived in that world.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know.

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Speaker 2: It's about that personal connection when you're sharing stories. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and this is a great place for SIS allies to

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Speaker 2: Are never really thought about your gender identity until you

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Speaker 2: started learning more. Until people relate to that personal issue,

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Speaker 2: Until some people relate to that personal story and see

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Speaker 2: how it affects a real human, they don't get it, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and they're just listening to the sound bites or you know,

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Speaker 2: there's also apathy. A lot of voters aren't paying attention

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Speaker 2: to this issue because they care about jobs or the economy,

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Speaker 2: or you know, many of other things that are going

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Speaker 2: that's being done or the potential harm. Like they're not

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Speaker 2: going to stop at LGBTQ issues, And this issue affects

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Speaker 2: all of us, Like we all want control of our bodies.

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Speaker 2: We all want to make medical decisions with our providers

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Speaker 2: the budget that is a medical conscious bill that allows

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like, Jen, you say this to me,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just like it's so fucking absurd because I'm like, then,

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Speaker 1: be a doctor, don't work at a pharmacy don't work

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Speaker 1: in general population. If your quote unquote religious moral and

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Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering, in your mind, is there a

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Speaker 1: if you can't provide birth control, if you can't provide

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Speaker 1: then maybe you're in the wrong profession.

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Speaker 2: I agree. And many of these associations and organizations that

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Speaker 2: you know provide accreditation have rules around this, and they

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Speaker 2: that are considering similar actions. And yes, if you're not

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Speaker 2: not willing to represent the people running right, like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that I mean basic baseline, right, Like, you're not

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Speaker 1: What does a quality Ohio need from people in order

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Speaker 2: That's a nice easy question, Go ahead. There's a lot.

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Speaker 2: It really matters who the decision makers are. A lot

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Speaker 2: of people are disillusioned by our election system, right and

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Speaker 2: I completely agree with them. Voting is not going to

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Speaker 1: I'm going to steal that because here's the thing, and

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Speaker 1: I don't you know where again, we're here at creating

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Speaker 1: I hear them, Jen, and I understand the pain, the frustration.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing this work in and around movement for

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Speaker 1: this one. I'm going to kiss this one up to God,

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Speaker 2: What do you say? I say that making real long

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Speaker 2: term change takes coalition work. We need to support each

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Speaker 2: There are three hundred and sixty six days this year,

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Speaker 2: because it's a leapier two of those days, I need

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Speaker 2: you to show up. I need you to go to

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Speaker 2: supporting other activists. Some of the most amazing people I

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Speaker 2: protests or running mutual aid campaigns, or small nonprofits that

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Speaker 2: are doing amazing work. All of us every day can

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Speaker 2: of us. Because one of the thing is our site.

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Speaker 2: We care about everyone on our side. We want to

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Speaker 2: protect the people that are actively supporting us, and we're

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Speaker 2: also not trying to cause harm to others.

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Speaker 1: Please tell people how they can get involved with Equality Ohio,

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Speaker 1: where they can sign up, volunteer, donate. If there don't

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Speaker 2: Sure. We have a website at Qualityohio dot org. We're

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Speaker 2: also on Facebook and TikTok.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant Jen, thank you so much for making the time

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Speaker 1: to Joan wokf really really appreciate you. Appreciate Equality Ohio.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate all of the.

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Speaker 2: Work that you are doing. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on wokay

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Speaker 1: f as always, power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.