Pronouns are not a suggestion
Thinking Outside the Binary
Should transgender people feel the need to keep changes to themselves, sacrificing their comfort so others don’t have to struggle in transition with them?
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Schools should teach acceptance, expand sex, gender education
CITY AFFAIRS: Berkeley school district’s potential inclusivity policy for gender-nonconforming, transgender students is a step forward
Inclusive sex education across the country must prioritize comprehension over shame, understanding over ignorance, love over hate.
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A study on navigating conservative family members
Off the Beat
It is complicated to navigate familial relationships with people who have political and social ideas so incompatible with your own.
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UC Berkeley community celebrates United Against Hate Week
On Monday, UC Berkeley students banded together on Sproul Plaza in support of the city’s inaugural United Against Hate Week.
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UC Berkeley must provide free menstrual products in all campus restrooms
CAMPUS ISSUES: Menstrual products are a basic necessity. Campus officials must prioritize their accessibility to students.
Last week, the Berkeley Unified School District board unanimously approved a policy that would require all girls’ and gender-neutral bathrooms to have free menstrual products — a mark of progress on the district’s part. But what’s alarming is that the world’s “No. 1 public university” has yet to follow suit in providing this basic necessity to community members.
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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues to provide platform for trans storytellers
Since 1997, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, or SFTFF, has shined as a beacon of light from within the various locations that have hosted it. Its more than two decades of history are a source of pride for its organizers, filmmakers and patrons.
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Why you should start reading ‘Saga’
What’s the best space opera about an intergalactic war fought by weird alien species? (It’s not “Star Wars.”) What’s the most emotionally investing fantasy series since “The Lord of the Rings”? (It’s not “Game of Thrones.”) And what’s one of the best comic books of the last decade? (It’s not a superhero comic.)
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Teaching tolerance
On My Mind
I feared for my sister’s experience at a school so appalled by trans people that they weren’t allowed to show themselves to students or speak about their experiences because of some fear of it spreading or denial that they even exist.
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UC Berkeley must commit to zero tolerance for hate
Now, many privileged communities strategically co-opt the concept of free speech to legitimize their open hatred of historically subordinated populations and to strategically disguise their prejudiced, dehumanizing ideologies as benign political opinion.
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Selective outrage on transgender ban reveals liberal hypocrisy
President Trump’s transgender ban, reinstating a ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military, is another example of Trump’s headline-grabbing self-absorption, demonstrating how electing a capricious demagogue with a base rife with transphobia can cause trans service members around the globe to suffer. Though disappointing, this directive is hardly
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