wewe thought it couldn t get better than that , but oh boy were we wrong. t now npr has taken up the vital topic of gender identity at elite women s colleges. holy smokes. it s a cornucopia of awesome. listen, women s colleges are adapting their admissions policies to reflect a shift in the waya that people. understand gender . some students identify as transgender or non binary, not exclusively male or female . so who belongs at a women s college? who belongs at a women s? ey an incisive question really. npr has a way of crystallizingng these things. until recently, answer would have been pretty obvious. women who don t t like men belog at a women s college. that s still true , but it sor more complicatede now because o one can say exactly what a woman is just having two x chromosomes and female qualify. you. whereas the real test whether or not you wear women s clothing and if so what kind of clothing? these are the kinds of debates consuming hollins university,iv
well, we re sad to tell you it s been yet another tough week for national public radio . on tuesday, npr reporteday that conservative supreme courtn justice neil gorsuch was terrifying his colleagues with his crazed anti science behavior. apparently gorsuch wasn t n tttwearing his little obediene mask and highly sensitive sonia sotomayor was too afraid to come to work. you would o justt expect from a mansplaining like neil gorsuch. well,, it turns out the story wasn t true . oops, sorry about that . and yet we kept listening to npr anyway because npr is abouty so much more than facts. npr istu about attitude and styn . it s about making mostd entitled people in this country feel even better about themselves. it s about saying things that are off the charts crazyts but sang them in a smug singsongy tone that suggests they ve always been true . it is highly compelling radio. honestly, we can tng turn it of last week we told you about recent npr segments on anti diet dieticians and fitnes
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formerly hollins college in the state of virginiaof. so npr went to the scene to provide breathless moment to moment coverage of this controversy. listen, here s how hollins latest admissions policy works. if you re a transgender woman, you can apply if you re a trans man, no, but if you transitione to maleaf after you get to hollins, you can stay and that s an important shift before 2019 if you transitioned while at hollins, you have to transfer out finally if you rena non binary, holland says no, your application will not be accepted to be admitted. you have to quote consist onlys live and identify as a woman and that s messed up, says sophomore willo seymour, who is genderqueer. so it s pretty simple at transgender women are welcome transgender or men areno not. but then there s the question of the non binary they seem to be excluded too. and this not surprisingly has the gender community quite upset. wait a second.
kind of just dip your toes in and you see how you feel about it and then you god further. hisese my name is ed miller.> i use them pronouns. well of course you miller that s why you re on npr. so you may remember rod blagojevich was governor of illinois until 2009. then hewi was sent to prison for 14 years in jail.. he he s aa democrat. he s was pretty liberal. you probably thought well, he deserved it. probably know much aboutut rod blagojevich if you don t live in the state at the very end of the trump administration, the former president commuter s his sentence. so we thought we d sit down and talk to rod blagojevich a on a brand new episode of tucker carlson today. what a farcend. nothing interesting. smart guy. one of the questions we asked is how did you get through all those years in prison? and he answered his wife and hes called having the lou gehrig approach to life. listen. i i remember hearing from somebody that you didn t have