The 10-campus University of California system is implementing a statewide policy requiring that an individual’s gender identity is fully recognized on college campuses and even within the UC’s medical facilities.
The “Gender Recognition and Lived Name” policy mandates universities acknowledge individuals’ gender identity and preferred name on all university-issued documents by the end of December 2023.
“This policy applies to all university campuses, locations, laboratories, medical centers and health systems, as well as satellite offices, affiliates, and other units controlled by the Regents of the University of California,” the policy states.
The 12-page policy, approved in November 2020, highlights how it will require each university to comply, spelling out detailed guidance on the collection and reporting of gender identity, lived names and sexual orientation.
UC campuses and related facilities must offer at least three gender options on university-issued documents: woman, man and nonbinary, for anyone who has an academic or professional relationship with the system.
Along with a process that amends their gender designation and lived names, if the legal name of a student, employee or alumni is different than their lived name, then it must be kept confidential except on certain financial and legal documents, the policy states, adding a trans person’s legal name is also known as their “dead name.”
The responsibility falls on each UC to continue this process, ensuring they adhere to record protection and electronic information security policies for individuals.
Plus, “Graduate, Undergraduate, and Equity Affairs at the University of California Office of the President is responsible for providing interpretations or clarifications of the policy.”
UC college officials are hopeful the policy will be fully implemented by the deadline.
“We have a campus committee that is working on the issue, and we will meet the deadline. This is an important policy,” Janet Gilmore, director of communications for UC Berkeley, told The College Fix. “The Gender Recognition and Lived Name policy ensures that all students, employees, alumni, and affiliates are identified by their accurate gender identity and lived name on university-issued identification documents and in UC’s information systems.”
When it comes to legal and health insurance documents, “safeguards need to be in place to protect and manage gender identity information; this includes controlling how the gender data is displayed in hardcopies and digital forms and properly training staff who have access to the data about their role as data stewards of UC privacy policies….”
The above comes from a July 25 posting on the College Fix.
Soon enough the furries will demand that their transspecies identities and names and languages be affirmed and recognized by institutions. And the moronic Dems will fall all over themselves to comply.
In other news the California Catholic Conference is neutral on this policy.
Pathetic. Ignorant. Waste of taxpayers’ money. Who cares what you call yourself? Not everyone should go to college. Long ago, at some fancy universities, students were called only by their surname: “Mr.” or “Miss.” (Or, in the rare case of an older, married lady student, “Mrs.’) Go to school and pay your tuition money, study hard, and learn something. No more stupid pop culture fads and games. Grow up, kiddies!
Man, woman or nonbinary leaves out the genderfluid.
Just make it a fill-in-the-blank or better yet, don’t ask.
And undergraduate/ graduate leaves out some people too.
You can always find a huge range of various mental and physical abnormalities, disorders, and illnesses, in any given population of students– and of teachers, too. You will find things like diabetes, weight control issues, kids who need to put on weight, heart problems, depression, anxiety, various congenital abnormalities, asthma, Down syndrome, hearing and vision problems, epilepsy, etc. etc. Some need Special Ed., or special schools (for the deaf and blind). A classroom teacher must help kids with special abnormalities– like a child on crutches— with a few, common-sense classroom adjustments. But a teacher must not pick out one child’s problem, and focus on it all day long– the child is there to learn, and learning must be the focus. After a few good adjustments are made, the child must be ready to focus on classroom learning– and be able to succeed at it.
It is very difficult for kids and adults with diabetes, weight control issues, heart problems, anxiety, depression, other problems to function without special adjustments. Issues such as needing to leave class to go to the nurses office, or not being able to join some games at recess, not being liked by other kids, being made fun of by other kids can cause psychological and emotional problems depending on how astute the adults in the room are. It is difficult for children, especially if their condition is seen as their fault like obesity and people react to it by criticizing or even encouraging them to change which just reminds them that they are not like others.
An LGBT problem is not something that should interfere with normal classroom learning– like a case of epilepsy, or a student who is on crutches, or a child with a broken arm in a sling, etc. LGBT issues are very personal, and it is not appropriate in any classroom, at any age– even in adult classes– to discuss sexual feelings. You keep that to yourself and your family, or between you and your doctor, counselor, etc., to help you adjust to society with your LGBT problems. Your teacher and your classmates do not need that information. Inappropriate.
Nobody is discussing their sexual feelings in class. They are just sitting in class, at recess, alone in the lunchroom trying to make sense of why other kids shun them or acting as much like the other kids as they can so that they don’t get ostracized.
I agree that there are people like you out there who cannot handle the information in a gracious way and they know that too.
just how much “higher” education
can be going on when every new day
brings on a monumental struggle over
the choice of which bathroom to use?
of course, at UC san Franisco, one
can simply use the sidewalk.