Transgender Rights - What Experiences Do You Have With Transgenter People?

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In deep canvassing, there's a step toward the end where they ask people about their real lived experiences with the issue. And rarely is that going to put a person more in the camp of and so now i really hate em like thats or now i really don't support this. So often it'll go one or two ways. They'll say, i have no experiences with em like, everything i know has received wisdom. Thenso i speak. I've doing this'm sorry, walt, i say, whal. Buth so a, it's gon to be very difficult for them to use one of these techniques that allows you to metacognate an a introspect

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