Judge temporarily narrows UC misgendering policy for group members
A federal judge has temporarily barred the University of California from applying parts of its harassment policy to members of Defending Education who use names or pronouns inconsistent with a trans person’s gender identity. The September 19 Los Angeles Times report says the preliminary order applies only to that group’s members while the case continues.
The judge did not strike down the university’s whole policy. UC can still act against abusive harassment, and the boundary between ordinary name or pronoun use and harassment remains contested. The university says its policy aims to protect people from discrimination and harassment and that it will defend it.
The injunction narrows one protection in a university system and may make trans students and staff less secure. It is preliminary and limited in who it covers. California’s legal, healthcare, safety, family and youth, affordability, employment and housing, community, and federal-resilience scores remain unchanged on this evidence; the universal federal warning still applies.
Read the Los Angeles Times report on the UC injunction.