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Federal Proposal to Redefine Gender Throws College Policies Into Uncertainty

October 25, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

The chronicle of Higher Education

By Emma Pettit

October 22, 2018

Susan Stryker saw it coming. On Saturday night the associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona had some friends over for dinner. They discussed how on the passport section of the State Department’s website, the term “gender marker” had been changed to “sex marker.”

It’s a minor shift to someone who isn’t familiar with transgender issues. But for Stryker, a founder of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly, it foreshadowed the headlines she awoke to on Sunday.

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