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A California state senator, seen as a potential successor to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, faced a heated confrontation over transgender policy and women’s safety concerns during a recent town hall-style event.

Democrat Scott Wiener was taking questions at the event when Tish Hyman, a Grammy-nominated musician, introduced herself and expressed concern over policies that allow transgender women to use women’s spaces such as locker rooms.

Hyman said that “as a lesbian woman who was attacked in a woman’s locker room at Gold’s Gym this week by a self-identifying trans woman with a documented history of domestic violence, I’m deeply concerned about women’s safety in female only spaces.”

Hyman then asked what Wiener would say to women who are

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