In a new proposal, the Biden administration stated that schools that discriminate against transgender students risk loosing school lunch funding. In response, State Attorney General Jeff Landry joined 21 other attorneys general in sending a letter to Biden expressing oppositions over the expanded interpretation of Title IX to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people. WRKF’s Paul Braun tells us more about how Louisiana lawmakers are responding, and how previous legislation led up to this moment. 

But bans on transgender athletes wasn’t the only thing to come out of the most recent legislative session. Representative Joe Marino, chairman of the Louisiana Legislature’s Medical Marijuana Commission, tells us about what the legislature did and didn’t do for patients, and why the state’s program continues to fall behind the national standard. 

While we are officially in the dog days of summer, many have jobs that don’t allow them to seek refuge in an air conditioned home or office. Like, for example, the local mail carrier. New Orleans author and commentator Ronnie Virgets, who died a couple of years back, once mused about his local mail carrier. Today, we hear an encore presentation of that commentary. 

Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karl Lengel. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh. 

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