Media.www.TheSpartanDaily.com – Michael Rizzo
For some students at SJSU, the gender they identify with internally doesn’t match up with the anatomy they were born with. A recent nationwide study listed college campuses that provide specific protections and services to these students. SJSU did not make the list.
Unlike 147 other campuses in the country, such as California State University Long Beach and Foothill DeAnza Community College, SJSU has not added “gender identity and expression” to its nondiscrimination policies.
The state of California’s nondiscrimination policies are now inclusive of gender identity since the passing of the state Civil Rights Act of 2007. But at SJSU no mention is made of transgender students, gender identity or gender expression under the students’ rights section of the SJSU catalog.