Issue Brief Revised Intro and Outline

Title: Gender Affirming Care: The Fight to Support Transgender Youth (shoutout Barbara for the title idea <3) Over the past couple of years, anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and legislation has been swarming across the country. Legislation have included limiting or restricting access to gender affirming care, requiring individuals to use bathrooms that align with their sex assigned […]

Burning Money

I am currently taking the course BISC 3, a course that many of you may be taking, will take, or have heard of. It is a very popular course here to fulfill gen ed requirements, and it can hold a massive class size. There’s like somewhere around 600 students in it this semester which is […]

Issue Brief Introductory Daft

Over the past couple of years, anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and legislation has been swarming across the country. Legislation have included limiting or restricting access to gender affirming care, requiring individuals to use bathrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth, and limiting discussion and education on gender and sexual identity in schools. Such bills reinforce […]

The Question of Absolute Immunity

This past Tuesday, former President Donald Trump and his lawyers submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging them to rule that he is absolutely immune from criminal charges relating to his attempts to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. In the brief, Trump’s lawyers state the importance of presidential immunity as a way of […]

Nex Benedict

On February 7, an altercation occurred in the women’s bathroom at Owasso High School in Oklahoma between several students, one of whom, was Nex Benedict. Nex was a 16 year old non-binary student who used they/them pronouns. Following the altercation, all of the students were reported by the school to have walked themselves to the […]

Book Bans

Like many people, I remember reading with my parents when I was little. I have distinct memories of my dad reading “Andrew Henry’s Meadow” to us before bed, or the times when he would read us scary stories on a random summer day. Even when I went to middle school, our teachers required us to […]