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French teens protest after transgender classmate's suicide

by Angela Charlton & Michel Spingler
| December 18, 2020 3:06 AM

LILLE, France (AP) — About 100 teenagers rallied in northern France on Friday to pay homage to a transgender student who killed herself this week after facing tensions with school officials for wearing a skirt to class, a case that has drawn online indignation and national attention to the issue of gender identity.

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