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Pride: 2021 has set a record in anti-trans bills in America
S2021 E157 - 6m 17s
This year, state legislatures across the country have introduced over 100 bills to restrict trans rights. Last Tuesday, the first day of Pride Month, Florida became the eighth state targeting trans athletes. Ivette Feliciano spoke with Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, about this record setting year.
Millions of Mexicans vote in a violence-marred election
S2021 E157 - 4m 43s
Mexicans voted on Saturday in the nation’s largest election in history, which saw all 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, nearly half the state governorships and almost 20,000 local offices go to polls. The election is being seen as a referendum on the president , who critics fear will further centralize power. NPR Correspondent Carrie Kahn joins.
A ‘Hail Mary’ to save some species of birds in Maryland
S2021 E157 - 5m 50s
On Maryland’s eastern shore, small islands used by birds for nesting are disappearing. That coincides with a steep drop in several species of colonial nesting birds in the state. But this spring, in what's being described as a ‘Hail Mary’, advocates have launched an artificial nesting platform to provide habitat for birds. Hari Sreenivasan reports from the coastal bays in Maryland.
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