Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>“The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> doesn’t generally <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/identify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identify</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/victims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>victims</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crimes</span></a>. But <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GiselePelicot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiselePelicot</span></a>’s lawyer, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/St%C3%A9phaneBabonneau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StéphaneBabonneau</span></a>, said she accepted that her name be <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/published" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>published</span></a> in the same way that she <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/insisted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insisted</span></a> that the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trial</span></a> be held in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a>.</p><p>She told the court that she hopes her <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/testimony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>testimony</span></a> might help spare other women from similar ordeals. She said she pushed for the trial in open court in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> with other <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> who go <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/unrecognized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unrecognized</span></a> as <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/victims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>victims</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crimes</span></a>.”</p>