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The View on Bathroom Rules from a Trans Teenager
A transgender teenager tells us how she’s navigated the bathroom issue and how she feels about states telling her she can’t use the bathroom she wants to. And a doctor who treats transgender youth talks about how these laws affect her patients.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenThe federal government put states on notice today, telling them that laws regulating the use of public bathrooms by transgender people would not be tolerated. We speak with a transgender teenager about what her experience has been like, and a doctor who deals with transgender children about how her patients are talking about this.
Pershing Square Downtown is about to get a major makeover and UCLA just got a big donation to revamp its art school.
We’ll have reviews of the latest new releases and also a look at the man who’s made it his life’s work to find a runner that can complete a marathon in under two hours.
Image: Gender Neutral Multistall Bathroom in Washington, D.C. (Ted Eytan)
In this episode
5 storiesTransgender Youth and the Bathroom Bills
There’s been a lot of debate over who can use which bathrooms recently. The Obama administration weighed in today, directing all public schools, colleges and universities to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identities. Here in California, that’s already the law.
Read the story10 minThe New Vision for Downtown’s Pershing Square
Pershing Square has famously been described as the “Worst Public Space in America.” But that is, hopefully, about to change. A team led by French landscape architecture firm Agence Ter won the competition to re-design Pershing Square with a plan titled “The Dynamic Heart of Los Angeles.”
Read the story8 minUCLA’s Plan for a New Art Infrastructure
UCLA’s School of Art and Architecture is about to get a major redesign. A major donation will allow the school to create a new building that will house state-of-the-art work spaces for its elite students. UCLA has a top-rated Master of Fine Arts program, which only admits about 20 students a year.
Read the story7 minReviews of “Money Monster” and Two Indie Comedies
We’ve got a hostage crisis thriller starring George Clooney and a couple of indies rocking the cinema this weekend. Love and Friendship and The Lobster are two very different comedies crafted by beloved independent film directors.
Read the story11 minThe 2-Hour Marathon: Art or Science?
Kenyan Dennis Kimetto holds the world record for running the fastest marathon. In 2014, he ran the Berlin marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 57 seconds. The idea of doing it in less than two hours? Some people think it’s impossible or at least 10 years away. But not Yannis Pitsiladis.
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