Thursday, May 18th, 2023

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

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Today’s Headlines: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed four bills into law that restrict LGBTQ rights. The bills include expanding the Don't Say Gay law, banning transition-related care for minors, prohibiting trans people from using public facilities aligned with their gender identities, and restricting "adult" performances in front of minors. However, Democrats are calling for an investigation into DeSantis's use of Florida's law enforcement agency. In North Carolina, the state legislature overrode Governor Roy Cooper's veto of a 12-week abortion ban. Donald Trump claimed responsibility for "killing Roe v. Wade." The resolution to expel George Santos from Congress was referred to the House Ethics Committee. In the mayoral race of Jacksonville, Florida, Donna Deegan became the first woman to hold the position, despite DeSantis endorsing her opponent. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: NBC News: DeSantis signs 'Don't Say Gay' expansion, gender-affirming care ban NBC News: Supreme Court rejects challenge to Illinois assault weapons ban Washington Post: North Carolina bans abortion past 12 weeks overriding governor veto NBC News: Trump: 'I was able to kill Roe v. Wade' AP NEws: Effort to expel Santos falters as Republicans vote to send measure to Ethics Committee News 4 Jacksonville: Voters elect Donna Deegan as new Jacksonville mayor Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, May 18th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.4	by Betches Media.
0:08.9	On your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of the
0:12.6	headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:17.2	show there is.
0:18.4	Our government.
0:19.4	Yesterday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed four bills into law aimed at restricting
0:27.0	LGBTQ rights in various ways.
0:30.0	The first of the measures will expand the state's so-called Don't Say Gay Law, to prohibit
0:34.3	sexual orientation or gender identity instruction through 12th grade, and it will require schools
0:39.5	to teach the definition of a person's sex as determined by biology and reproductive function
0:44.5	of birth, and that they are binary, stable, and unchangeable.
0:48.7	It will also bar schools from requiring students or employees to refer to each other using
0:53.2	pronouns that do not align with their assigned sex at birth, and it will prohibit trans
0:57.8	school employees from sharing their pronouns with students.
1:01.3	The second new bill will ban transition-related care for minors, and will grant the state
1:05.2	of Florida temporary custody of children whose parents provide them with gender-affirming
1:09.5	care.
1:10.5	I could not think of a worse punishment than that.
1:13.0	And health care providers who violate the law could face a felony punishable by up to
1:16.6	five years in prison.
1:18.7	The final two laws that DeSantis signed yesterday act to bar trans people from using public
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