The Paris Lees One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The journalist and transgender rights activist talks about growing up trans and why the way media debates trans issues makes her angry.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.4	I've been going to Parliament for years,
0:05.6	and you know, I still get a buzz.
0:07.6	The sound, the big bend, the sight of the green benches,
0:11.1	the knowledge that for hundreds of years,
0:13.3	decisions of war and peace, of life and death,
0:17.0	of prosperity and bankruptcy, have been taken here.
0:21.4	Yet there is a little bit of me
0:23.0	that has always felt that I don't really belong.
0:26.6	It is, if you like, too like the type of school,
0:29.2	I didn't go to, and yes, I did go to a fee-paying school
0:32.4	and I did go to Oxford.
0:34.3	But Parliament still has the smack of the Gentleman's Club,
0:38.2	the sort of club I'm not a member of.
0:40.9	How must there net feel to women
0:43.3	who celebrated this week in Westminster
0:45.6	celebrated that change when 100 years ago,
0:49.6	the truly shocking idea,
0:51.9	the idea that women, women I tell you,
0:54.7	should be granted the vote.
0:56.6	Change you see comes agonisingly slowly,
0:59.6	particularly to those who are arguing for it.
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