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    How Personal is Personal Identity? Florida Threatens to Ban Gender-Affirming Treatment for Minors

    January 23, 2023By Amanda Cruz

    The Florida Board of Medicine and Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine recently voted on a new standard of care banning gender-affirming treatments for new minor patients. The decision by the state’s medical boards prohibits Florida doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, cross-hormonal treatment, and gender-affirming surgeries to treat gender dysphoria in patients under 18 years old. […]

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    Riots, Regulations, and Racism: A Glance into Miami Beach’s Response to Spring Breakers

    May 17, 2021By Randy Hernandez

    Businesses are reopening, people are back on the streets, and America is shaking off the COVID-19 blues. After a year of mostly staying inside, tourist by the thousands, arrived onto Miami Beach to enjoy their spring break vacation. Florida, one of the few states in the country that has lifted most COVID-19 restrictions, opened its […]

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    Essential, Undervalued, and At-Risk: The Plight of Black Women During COVID-19

    October 30, 2020By Dominique Barile

    Systemic racism and poverty permeate everything. Black women face not only racial discrimination, which has affected their socioeconomic status and consequently their health, but also sex discrimination. When comparing full-time employees, for every dollar a white man earns, Black women make just 62 cents. It took 50 years, from 1967 to 2018, just for the […]

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