UCLA Prime Minister Julio Frenk and UC President James B. Milicken have It seemed to have refused The Trump administration demands it be linked to a recovery in federal funds. This demand reportedly includes large-scale financial settlements, diversity, equity, the end of inclusion practices, and rollbacks of trans rights on campus. That rollback would prohibit transgender students from participating in sports, living in dorms, using bathrooms that match their gender identity, and would halt the provision of gender-affirming care by university hospitals and medical schools.
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“The University of California just received a document from the Department of Justice and is reviewing it. Earlier this week we offered to engage in honest dialogue with the department to protect the university and its important research mission. As a public university, we are committed to not only paying this scale to completely destroying our country’s great public university system, but also to the great harm of the great nation of this Californian nation and the American people. Reading the statement from Milliken, we have a UC system for technology and medical therapy that saves lives, grows the US economy and protects national security.
According to CNN, The list of requests was extensive. These include the prohibition of transgender participation in sports, regardless of medical transition circumstances. This demand also calls for “single sex housing.” This would likely prohibit transgender students in their dorms from matching their living, often legal gender. Although not reported by CNN, similar requests made at other universities have also led to the ban on transgender people using bathrooms tailored to gender identity.
One demand was asked to end the provision of gender maintenance care across UCLA hospitals and medical schools, serving many transgender patients in California. Such loss of care is devastating. In the last few months, Several hospitals across the US It has halted the provision of trans health care to people under the age of 19, and has fallen into the demands of the Trump administration, which often violates state equality laws. One such hospital was Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. There, the loss of care forced a considerable number of patients to seek treatment elsewhere.
News that UCLA had refused to transfer to the Trump administration’s request set it apart from other universities that took a different approach, with trans students throwing federal funds under the bus. The past few weeks, Columbia University has signed a similar contract That includes a ban on sports and dormitory ban for transgender students. Penn agreed I’ll give you victory By transgender athletes in sports competitions. The most troublesome of all was Brown University. More recent agreementsincluding all of the above and ban on transgender students in the bathroom. This is a policy that appears to be in violation of Rhode Island’s civil rights protections. Brown is one of the Blue State’s first major universities to adopt a transgender bathroom ban. For now, UCLA will not surrender to these universities.
Governor Gavin Newsom It looked like I’d check it out The university system, at least in the short term, says, “Donald Trump has weaponized the DOJ (Doctor of Justice) to organize America’s number one university system. Newsom He himself pushed Anti-trans policies, including the segregation/prohibition of sports, are spreading misinformation about transgender healthcare with conservative podcasters. It remains unclear whether his opposition to UCLA negotiations with the federal government is rooted in the anti-trans aspect of the demand, or whether the government is trying to impose on the system.
Although requests appear to be denied for now, multiple statements indicate that lawyers have reviewed them and decided on their next steps. The state is now He engaged in a legal battle The freeze of 300 federal grants for transgender and diversity policies has been found to violate the legal rights of those states and agencies. In that case, the government I’m discussing The suspension is not the same as ending and therefore does not violate the judgment.
Editor’s Note: Previous versions of this article mentioned transgender volleyball players. This player went to SJSU instead of UCLA.
This article was originally published Morning Erin.
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