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Skyler’s Story: What trans rights mean to one South Carolina family
South Carolina lawmakers are considering bills including H. 4624 that would ban medically necessary healthcare and restrict the daily lives of transgender youth. Today we want to share the story of one family with a trans child and the harm these laws could cause.
Skyler, 13, lives in South Carolina with his siblings and his parents, Wendy and Alberto. He’s trans, and his family supports him.
Skyler’s family has been on a journey of understanding. Skyler’s dad, Alberto, grew up in a conservative community not unlike South Carolina, and at first he didn’t know what it meant for Skyler to be transgender. But he committed to learning the facts and getting to know what his child needed.
Last year Alberto drove his pickup truck in the local Pride parade flying the biggest rainbow flag you’ve ever seen — because that’s what dads do when they’re proud of their children.
Skyler was heartbroken last year when South Carolina lawmakers passed a ban on trans kids participating in school sports. He wanted to join the boys’ basketball team at his school, but politicians outlawed that simple joy of adolescence. Now the same politicians are considering whether to take away something far more serious from Skyler and his family: The right to access medically necessary healthcare with the advice of a family doctor.
Skyler’s mom, Wendy, was quick to support him, but she is anxious about the future. Skyler is making small but significant changes to his name and clothing. Even this practice, known as “social transition,” could be outlawed in schools under proposals like H. 4707 that were introduced in the past year.
Families with trans kids want the same things as other families: For their children to be safe and healthy, and for them to feel loved. When the government interferes with the right to care for our own children, fundamental civil liberties are at risk.
Can you contact your senator today and ask them to reject H. 4624? Every single call and email makes a difference in stopping this bill before it’s too late.
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Missouri Baseball Drops Series Opener Against No. 15 South Carolina
The Missouri Tigers dropped game one against the No. 15 South Carolina Gamecocks. They are now on a five-game losing streak in SEC play.
South Carolina took advantage of Missouri not scoring after the second inning to help them get the 10-2 win.
Despite the South Carolina taking the first lead of the game, Missouri took it back right after with back-to-back home runs from freshman designated hitter Mateo Serna and sophomore centerfielder Jackson Lovich in the bottom of the second.
After the two homers, Missouri’s offense went quiet but South Carolina’s did not.
The Gamecocks tied it once more in the top of the third with a solo shot of their own. They then followed that up with a a two-run fifth. Another run in the sixth and five more in the eighth put the deficit at eight with nine unanswered runs overall.
Missouri’s starter, sophomore Logan Lunceford went five innings for the Tigers. Considering his opponents were a top-15 team in the country, he did pretty well. Lunceford only allowed four hits for four runs while striking out six.
Despite six runs coming across during graduate pitcher Jacob Peaden’s tenure on the mound, He left the game with just one earned run through three innings. He gave up just five hits and two walks.
Missouri’s record drops to 20-27 on the season and 6-16 in SEC play, while South Carolina improves to 31-14 and 12-10. The Tigers will take the field for game two at 3 p.m. CT.
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Scientists welcome new rules on marijuana, but research will still face obstacles
As the Biden administration moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, scientists say the change will lift some of the restrictions on studying the drug.
But the change won’t lift all restrictions, they say, neither will it decrease potential risks of the drug or help users better understand what those risks are.
Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, which is defined as a substance with no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. The Biden administration proposed this week to classify cannabis as a Schedule III controlled substance, a category that acknowledges it has some medical benefits.
The current Schedule I status imposes many regulations and restrictions on scientists’ ability to study weed, even as state laws have made it increasingly available to the public.
“Cannabis as a Schedule I substance is associated with a number of very, very restrictive regulations,” says neuroscientist Staci Gruber at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “You have very stringent requirements, for example, for storage and security and reporting all of these things.”
These requirements are set by the Food and Drug Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Institutional Review Board and local authorities, she says. Scientists interested in studying the drug also have to register with the DEA and get a state and federal license to conduct research on the drug.
“It’s a burdensome process and it is certainly a process that has prevented a number of young and rather invested researchers from pursuing [this kind of work],” says Gruber.
Reclassifying the drug as Schedule III puts it in the same category as ketamine and Tylenol with codeine. Substances in this category have accepted medical use in the United States, have less potential for abuse than in higher categories and abuse could lead to low to moderate levels of dependence on the drug.
This reclassification is “a very, very big paradigm shift,” says Gruber. “I think that has a big trickle down effect in terms of the perspectives and the attitudes with regard to the actual sort of differences between studying Schedule III versus Schedule I substances.”
Gruber welcomes the change, particularly for what it will mean for younger colleagues. “For researchers who are looking to get into the game, it will be easier. You don’t have to have a Schedule I license,” she says. “That’s a big deal.”
The rescheduling of cannabis will also “translate to more research on the benefits and risks of cannabis for the treatment of medical conditions,” writes Dr. Andrew Monte in an email. He is associate director of Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety and an emergency physician and toxicologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
“This will also help improve the quality of the research since more researchers will be able to contribute,” he adds.
But the change in classification won’t significantly expand the number of sources for the drug for researchers, says Gruber. For 50 years, researchers were allowed to use cannabis from only one source – a facility at the University of Mississippi. Then, in 2021, the DEA started to add a few more companies to that listof approved sources for medical and scientific research.
While she expects more sources to be added in time, she and many of the researchers she knows have yet to benefit from the recently added sources, as most have limited products available.
“And what we haven’t seen is any ability for researchers –cannabis researchers, clinical researchers – to have the ability to study products that our patients and our recreational consumers or adult consumers are actually using,” she adds. “That remains impossible.”
There is very little known information about what is in cannabis products on the market today. Some studies show that the level of THC, the main intoxicant in marijuana, being sold to consumers today is significantly higher than what was available decades ago, and high THC levels are known to pose more health risks.
And Monte cautions that the reclassification itself doesn’t mean that cannabis has no health risks. Monte and his colleagues have been documentingsome of those risks in Colorado by studying people who show up in the emergency room after consuming cannabis. Intoxication and cyclical vomiting (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome) and alarming psychiatric symptoms such as psychosis are among the top problems bringing some marijuana users to the hospital.
Research on cannabis has been lacking surveillance of these kinds of impacts for decades, he says. And rescheduling the drug will not fill that “gaping hole in risk surveillance,” he writes.
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South Carolina-Missouri series: Times, TV, pitching, weather, odds
The South Carolina baseball travels to Missouri this weekend for a three-game SEC series. Here is everything you need to watch and listen to the games, plus start times, pitching, weather, and odds.
Information last updated Friday, May 3 at 8 a.m.
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South Carolina-Missouri Game 1
- Date/Time: Friday, May 3, 7 p.m. ET
- Television: None
- Streaming video: SEC Network+ (verified TV provider required) with Nate Gatter, Noah Reed
- Radio: Gamecock Radio Network with Derek Scott, Stuart Lake; pregame at 6:45 p.m.
- Streaming audio: Learfield and the South Carolina Gamecocks app (Apple, Google)
- Weather: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. East wind 6 to 8 mph.
- Odds: South Carolina is a moneyline favorite of -200.
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South Carolina-Missouri Game 2
- Date/Time: Saturday, May 4, 4 p.m. ET
- Television: None
- Streaming video: SEC Network+ (verified TV provider required) with Nate Gatter, Noah Reed
- Radio: Gamecock Radio Network with Derek Scott, Stuart Lake; pregame at 3:45 p.m.
- Streaming audio: Learfield and the South Carolina Gamecocks app (Apple, Google)
- Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 3-4 p.m. (CT), then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4 p.m. (CT). Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Southeast wind 7 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
- Odds: Will be released Saturday morning.
South Carolina-Missouri Game 3
- Date/Time: Sunday, May 5, 2 p.m. ET
- Television: None
- Streaming video: SEC Network+ (verified TV provider required) with Nate Gatter, Noah Reed
- Radio: Gamecock Radio Network with Derek Scott, Stuart Lake; pregame at 1:45 p.m.
- Streaming audio: Learfield and the South Carolina Gamecocks app (Apple, Google)
- Weather: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 4 p.m. (CT). Partly sunny, with a high near 73. East wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
- Odds: Will be released Sunday morning.
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South Carolina-Missouri: Probable starting pitchers
Friday
- South Carolina Roman Kimball (R-So., RHP) 2-1, 4.10 ERA, 26.1 IP, 26 BB, 36 K
- Missouri Logan Lunceford (So. RHP) 1-4, 7.04 ERA, 47.1 IP, 17 BB, 43 K
Saturday
- South Carolina Eli Jones (Jr. RHP) 3-2, 3.91 ERA, 53.0 IP, 15 BB, 44 K
- Missouri Javyn Pimental (Jr. LHP) 2-2, 3.64 ERA, 42.0 IP, 13 BB, 45 K
Sunday
- South Carolina: TBA
- Missouri TBA
Scouting Missouri
- The Tigers come into the weekend with a 20-26 overall record and a 6-15 record in SEC play.
- Missouri is coming off a 13-1 win over Lindenwood on Tuesday night. Matt Garcia had three RBI and Danny Corona had two hits and two RBI in the win.
- Jackson Lovich leads the Tigers with a .293 batting average while Trevor Austin has 10 home runs and 30 RBI this year.
- On the mound, Ryan Magdic has two saves and 29 strikeouts in 22 innings pitched.
- Kerrick Jackson is in his first season in Columbia. He was the head coach at Memphis from 2021-23. He is the first African-American head baseball coach in Southeastern Conference history.
(Info from USC Media Relations)
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South Carolina-Missouri series
- Carolina leads the all-time series with Missouri 20-13 heading into the weekend.
- Last season, the Gamecocks swept the Tigers, winning 9-8 in the opener on a fielder’s choice and throwing error in the bottom of the ninth.
- Ethan Petry’s RBI single in the 12th gave the Gamecocks the sweep in the 5-4 win.
- Carolina is 5-10 all-time against Missouri in CoMo.
(Info from USC Media Relations)
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Gamecock Radio Network: Affiliates for SEC baseball series
- Allendale, 93.5 FM, WDOG
- Camden, 98.7 FM, WCAM
- Camden, 1590 AM, WCAM
- Charleston, 98.9 FM, WTMZ
- Chesterfield, 107.3 FM, WVSZ
- Columbia, 107.5 FM, WNKT (flagship station)
- Florence, 96.3 FM, WOLH
- Florence, 1230 AM, WOLH
- Greenville, 104.9 FM, WROO
- Greenville, 1440 AM, WGVL
- Myrtle Beach, 100.3 FM, WSEA
- Rock Hill/Lancaster, 107.1 FM, WRHM
- Spartanburg, 98.3 FM, WSPG
- Spartanburg, 1400 AM, WSPG
- Waynesboro, 92.9 FM, WYBO
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