transgender
My plea of support to the transgender community
July 26, 2015Caitlyn Jenner, in all her glory, recently accepted the ESPY Arthur Ashe Courage Award and delivered a powerful, important speech: it’s time to accept people for who they are. It is wrong for a citizen of a country to be denied the rights of another on the terms that one of them is cisgender and the other is a transgender. It was wrong when women and people of color were denied full citizenship rights, and the exact same applies for transgender citizenship. I can be compassionate and defensive towards transgender people because I am the same as them — a…
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Transgenderism is a “social experiment” for a better society
June 15, 2015On June 3, Mike Huckabee, a US Presidential candidate, argued that transgenderism is a “social experiment.” Although Huckabee’s and my opinions on gender identity issues greatly differ, there’s merit in the essence of this statement. With headlines blown up by…
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Transgender professor named women’s literary organization’s Critic-in-Residence
January 12, 2015SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) professor Lucas Crawford has just been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ Critic-in-Residence for 2015. The honour of being selected as the Critic-in-Residence has been awarded to one researcher each year…
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SFU remembers victims of anti-transgender violence
November 22, 2014SFU held events at the Burnaby campus last week to commemorate International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). Held on November 20, TDOR honours transgender and gender non-conforming individuals who have been killed out of anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. There have…
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Community members advocate for preferred names on student IDs
September 22, 2014Two 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…
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