Anti-trans legislation; plus, Broadway is back

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Legislation targeting transgender Americans and trans children has increased sharply in the last year. Guest host Ari Shapiro speaks with the Florida mother of a trans daughter about how their family is coping with that state's new, more restrictive policies. Then, Ari discusses how this wave of law-making differs from so-called "moral panics" of past decades — and why that matters — with historian Jules Gill-Peterson, of Johns Hopkins University.

Then, Broadway is back and bigger than ever, with 16 new shows opening this month. But this Broadway burst hasn't been immune to the pandemic. "Macbeth" director Sam Gold talks to Ari about having to go onstage himself this month, when too many of his cast tested positive for Covid; and about what feels different as actors and audiences try to get back to normal.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is a reason if you sign them.
0:02.8	This is when Carro Tramp-Pubia has shifted in the US.
0:05.8	Plus, a Broadway director makes his way back to stage.
0:09.6	Alright, let's start the show.
0:11.6	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:16.6	I'm Ari Shapiro.
0:18.9	There's been a wave of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ
0:22.1	plus legislation sweeping through a number of states this year.
0:26.0	I kind of feel like I've been saying that every year
0:28.2	and every year it gets bigger.
0:29.8	But some things changed in the kinds of bills that are passing
0:33.1	and the strategies behind them.
0:34.8	Take Florida, for example.
0:38.2	Over the past few years, anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ plus bills
0:42.1	have shown up in Florida's legislature.
0:44.1	There was a failed bathroom bill in 2015,
0:46.9	a slate of four other anti-LGBTQ bills appeared in 2020.
0:51.6	Last year, Florida Governor Rhonda Santis
0:53.7	signed a bill into law banning trans youth
0:55.7	from joining sports teams that align with their gender.
0:58.5	I can tell you this in Florida, girls are going to play
1:01.5	girl sports and boys are going to play boy sports.
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