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submerging homes and roads, in the capital seoul. at least eight people have died. the south korean president has called an emergency meeting now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isnt driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ...

shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. its great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. its described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender s...

41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air—conditioning system. now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isnt driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my gu...

and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here, thank you for having me. its great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. its described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issue...

Something out there that gave people a sense of confidence in talking about these issues and this group of people. and just to be very clear and basic about it, would it be right, if i was to just do the most shorthand description of what it means to be trans — it is, in essence, a person whose sexual sense of themselves, their gender identity, is at odds with the biological sex that they were born into? would that be...? i think thats a pretty robust definition, yes. and i think, within that,...

And just to be very clear and basic about it, would it be right, if i was to just do the most shorthand description of what it means to be trans — it is, in essence, a person whose sexual sense of themselves, their gender identity, is at odds with the biological sex that they were born into? would that be...? i think thats a pretty robust definition, yes. and i think, within that, there is a huge spectrum of experience, because obviously your experience of being trans is inflected by so many t...

Your class position, it doesnt matter that oprah is one of the wealthiest people in the world or meghan markle talks from her estate, they will be oppressed. you never get it over because race is always with you. we have a vibrant black middle-class. if you say they are not privileged because they are black, you have a way of dividing people. donald trump is not in office now. the covid operation warp speed vaccination program worked. so covid is dying down. people thought if they turned

Happiness. >> you talk also about class arguments. a lot of seculars and militant atheists and people who just turn their nose down at religious people make arguments against religion for being sort of culturally and socioeconomically less than. religious people are less educated and wealthy. thats the argument they may. you say not true. you pack that. >> very interesting. when you look at the data carefully it is true that people with lower levels of education and income are more likely to say...

Getting the money back into the federal treasury. so these are good investments, productivity and growth side, when have you hunger, you lose 1$170 million in productivity. when you have child poverty, you lose $500 million in the economy in productivity. these are obvious to people who can empathize with the fact that if you are hungry, you cannot learn. if you are hungry, you cant work if are you sick and have a child at home, you cannot go and be productive. these are obvious and sensible eco...