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Students at the State University of New York can now select ‘X’ as gender for college records
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that SUNY students can now mark “X” when asked about their gender.
- LGBTQ+ students can also have their preferred names printed on their diplomas.
- The announcement comes just weeks after Hochul announced that New Yorkers could select “X” as their gender on the driver’s license.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Wednesday that students at all 64 campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY) can now select the letter “X” when asked to provide their gender and can have chosen names appear on college diplomas and campus profiles.
“Every person, regardless of their gender identity or the name they choose to go by, deserves to have identity documentation that reflects who they are,” the governor said in a statement.
Campuses have until the fall of 2023 to fully implement the policy changes, according to the statement, to ensure transgender, gender-nonconforming and nonbinary student identities are reflected in the public university campus system.
“An inclusive chosen name and pronoun policy doesn’t only help students feel safer on campus—it is also a matter of respect. This is the next concrete step toward ensuring SUNY’s current and future transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary students feel embraced and uplifted,” said SUNY Interim Chancellor Deborah F. Stanley.
“To those students and families who are seeing an unprecedented effort to roll back LGBTQIA+ rights and opportunities in other states, we want you to know that New York State and SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities intend only to move forward.”
A wealth of anti-LGBTQ laws has been introduced and passed by state legislators with the most high-profile being Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law otherwise known as the “don’t say gay” law which bars teachers from hosting discussions on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms.
The SUNY policy changes come just weeks after Gov. Hochul announced that New Yorkers could select “X” as their gender on their driver’s license.
Source: Yahoo! News
Fred
June 11, 2022 at 7:06 pm
I love your comment!
Fred
June 11, 2022 at 7:26 pm
Question is, do they really know the difference?
joseph robinson
June 11, 2022 at 7:48 pm
To dumb to look and see if they have a dick or a pussy .Sad !!
David Dutra
June 11, 2022 at 8:47 pm
It’s hard enough to get most people to believe what they consider what is abnormal can be normalized ; it’s a different story to ever get people to believe that what is natural and forever change by the hand of mankind will ever be accepted to ever different than un-natural… Especially when that lifestyle is looked down upon in every RELIGEON I’ve ever heard of…
To get people to sway away from their Religion is going to be a impossible task for many – many generations to come…
jw
June 11, 2022 at 8:58 pm
as they say – the whack jobs are in charge of some higher education- – but wait there’s more- at the lower level government school system, there are more wackos in charge of now what is been re-coined as the government indoctrination centers for young moldable minds – all the wack jobs are pouring out of the woodwork with this biden admin- he will go down as one if not the only one, the worst person to ever be a president of a country,
Rat Wrangler
June 11, 2022 at 11:52 pm
I would put down LG (Local God) if it were not for a copyright violation with a South Korean company. My preferred pronouns are “Lord” and “Highness”. I thought about putting down a G, but too many assume that has to mean the One True God, rather than the other gods that even the Bible does not deny exists. Maybe I could use a D for Deity and leave it at that.
Aaron
June 12, 2022 at 4:28 am
There’s no such thing as lgbt, queer, or gender neutral! People who say they are, they have a serious mental Issue! What ever you were born as is what you will always be. You can’t change DNA.