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Community members advocate for preferred names on student IDs

Two SFU community members, in collaboration with members from SFPIRG and Out on Campus, have started a campaign to create a university policy which would allow students to have their preferred names on their student ID cards. Lucas Crawford, Ruth Wynn Woodward lecturer in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and a transgender individual himself, is embarking on a campaign with GSWS student Nathan Lyndsay to make self-identification more comfortable for transgender students at the university. The issue concerns the university’s current policy which does not allow students to use their preferred names on their IDs. According…

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