Trans Athletes Fight For Rights
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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Summary
The federal government announced on Thursday some upcoming changes to the next Census. The form will consolidate two existing questions about race and ethnicity into one question. There will also be a longer list of race categories for people to select from, along with the ability to choose more than one. The list will include, for the first time, the option to select “Middle Eastern or North African.”
This Sunday is International Transgender Day of Visibility. It comes amid a legislative, political and sociocultural assault on the lives of trans people. Sports journalist and athlete Karleigh Chardonnay Webb talks about one of those assaults: a recent lawsuit against the NCAA that seeks to roll back eligibility rules for trans college athletes.
And in headlines: A federal court says South Carolina can use a Congressional map ruled unconstitutional for the the 2024 election, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and House Speaker Mike Johnson said he’ll send impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10.
Show Notes:
- Outsports: “College female athletes file lawsuit to ban trans athletes from competing in the NCAA” – https://tinyurl.com/2dp4rxpa
- Media Matters: “The New York Times failed to quote trans people in two-thirds of stories on anti-trans legislation in a one-year period” – https://tinyurl.com/244cbteu
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 29th. |
| 0:06.2 | It's Friday, March 29th, I'm Trayvon Anderson. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Abdul Al-Said, and this is what a day, |
| 0:11.3 | the pot, no one's really listening to this morning. |
| 0:13.4 | Listen everybody is listening to Beyonce's latest release cowboy Carter so as far as I'm |
| 0:18.8 | concerned all is right with the world. You know Trivel I'm listening to you just can't hear me because it's in my |
| 0:24.4 | airpot. On today's show Trans Day of Visibility is this Sunday, and we will hear why it's |
| 0:36.2 | important that trans athletes are visible in sports. Plus 7-11 tests our |
| 0:41.7 | patients by announcing it's going to start selling the worst sounding |
| 0:45.8 | flavor of sparkling water since Pample Moose. |
| 0:49.2 | You mean Pimple Moose? |
| 0:51.2 | But first, who's ready for revisions to statistical policy directive number 15? |
| 0:56.0 | I sure am. Been waiting for it my whole life, in fact. |
| 0:59.0 | You're going to have to explain to us why you've been waiting on this |
| 1:02.6 | Abdul. All right, Trayvon. Statistical policy directive number 15 |
| 1:06.2 | is the one that directs the federal government's collection and |
| 1:08.8 | presentation of data about race and ethnicity. In layman's terms, we're talking about how the census collects it |
| 1:14.0 | and there was a huge announcement Thursday that's a game changer for many communities of color. |
| 1:19.0 | That's because for as long as I can remember |
| 1:21.0 | yours truly one Abdur Rahman Muhammad |
| 1:23.6 | the Syed whose parents were both born in Egypt and who |
| 1:26.4 | gets stopped at airports all the time has been |
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