Genny’s article, “Legal Fights Persist over Policies that Require Teachers to Refer to Trans Students by Their Chosen Pronouns,” was published in The Conversation.
Category Archives: college students
Interviewed by CBS News
For Pride Month, Genny was interviewed live by CBS News on how colleges support/fail to support LGBTQ+ students and what students can do if their institutions are unsupportive.
Incoming College Student Project Announcement
Genny is thrilled to announce that they will be working with the Common App to analyze the gender identity and pronouns, and the intersections with racial identity, for the more than a million students who filled out their application in the current college admissions cycle. The data will be the largest body of information on …
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Genny Featured in an Article about Trans College Athletes
Genny’s thoughts about the limits being placed on trans women to compete in college athletics were featured in a Feb. 25, 2022 article in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
Genny Speaks at White House Event on Greater Inclusion in STEM
Genny was one of the speakers invited to be part of a roundtable discussion sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on how to further inclusion in STEM programs. They spoke about their work to make colleges, and Engineering programs in particular, more welcoming to LGBTQ+ students.
Article on How Colleges Can Now Better Support Trans Students Published
Genny’s article on the need for colleges to increase support for trans students, with the Common Application now giving students the ability to indicate their gender identity, was published in The Conversation.
Panel discussion: PFLAG “Something to Talk About”
June 11, 2021 4:59 PM ET On June 10, 2021, Genny Beemyn was part of a panel discussion about choosing a college as an LGBTQ+ student. The discussion was part of PFLAG‘s Something to Talk About Live, a series created by PFLAG National’s Straight for Equality program, which aims to encourage discussion of LGBTQ+ topics. …
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