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The Kaizhou Inquirer - September 4349
The Kaizhou Inquirer is northern Indrala's leading periodical, reporting on politics, culture and economics

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Social Democratic Party Leads Civil Rights Protest
In response to the rise of the Conservative Coalition and its "Sex and Honour Act", the Social Democratic Party has led an Indrala wide protest.


Party Leader Fa Rong stands with a number of other Social Democratic Party members.

KAIZHOU, Jiaozhi -- The recent election has seen the rise of the newly founded Conservative Coalition, the successor party to the Indrala's Centre Party. However, this new political body has shown itself to be much further right economically and less supportive of civil rights. Despite this, with the record low electorate turn out the Conservative Coalition gained a massive 303 seats, almost holding a majority on their own. Such surprising results worry to many civil rights activists and minority groups in Indrala. Due to this the Social Democratic Party decided to hold a protest across all of Indrala supporting civil rights.

The event, which had been scheduled to take place on the tenth of January, drew a much larger crowd than expected with thousands attending throughout a number of Indrala's largest cities. One of the most notable ones was right here in Kaizhou, where many Social Democratic Party politicians gathered, including Party Leader Fa Rong, a Kaizhou native. The march was filled with life and energy as people of all difference marched through the city streets to show their support for civil rights in Indrala. Meanwhile, crowds in both Tian'an and Mundawan were just as robust, with members of Indrala's other parties joining as well.

One of the most notable groups at the protests was the LGBT+ community, who had been riled to action by the recent "Sex and Honour Act". This law proposed by the Conservative Coalition, sought to remove the legal rights of transsexuals to change their gender. This understandably created alarm among the community who feared a long step back in their hard fought battle for rights. Li Fan, a member of the LGBT+ community spoke with us:

"It is unconceivable that the Conservative Coalition has put forth such a bill. Not only would it set us back a century in hard fought civil rights, but could also lead to further discrimination of transsexuals. Along with that if this bill is to pass, who knows what else the Conservative Coalition might suggest, perhaps stripping the rights of the rest of the LGBT+ community, or maybe even other minorities like the Kyo or Dinh."

Another group angered by the proposal were more progressive-minded teachers. This was due to an amendment in the bill that allowed students to opt out of sexual education classes. Many educators believe that this won't be good for Indrala's youth, and could lead to ignorance from teens.

"It's better for them to have knowledge of such topics. Many studies show that teens will "experiment" anyway." One teacher commented.

It seems that the "Sex and Honour Act" will not pass through Indrala's legislature; however, as the Social Democratic and Lotus Parties, as well as New Dawn, all signaled that they will vote against the bill. The news has be recieved with celebration across Indrala.

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Originally posted by pandowlpaws on 3 March 2018.