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May 30, 2025: Illinois lawmakers mover closer to finalizing budget, Elon Musk leaves DOGE, and more restrictions on international students

This week in our Politics Roundup, the Illinois General Assembly closes in on a state spending plan as the spring legislative session is scheduled to end this weekend. In national politics, we discuss what's next for the Department of Government Efficiency as Elon Musk announces his departure, and the State Department's threat to revoke visas for some Chinese students.

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The 21st Show

‘I was an abomination’: Trans lawyer shares difficult coming out experience in new memoir

Sheryl Weikal’s parents were deeply conservative, and for many years she and her sisters were homeschooled. At eight years old, she had never heard the word “transgender,” but she understood that there was a disconnect between who she was and what she saw in the mirror. She tried to come out to her family as a child. In the years that followed, her parents reacted negatively … often, violently. She talks about that experience and more in her upcoming memoir, “I Was An Abomination: A Story of Trans Survival in Conservative America".

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