Rome doctor says gay and physical issues are her emphasis, worries about Trump limiting what she can suggest
A Syracuse University professor is worried President Donald Trump will limit her ability to talk about “gender ” and “sexuality ” and related topics.
The Syracuse pupil newspaper covered Trump’s current executive orders to recognize that sex is linear and unchanging. President Trump has also ordered an end to “diversity, equity, and inclusion ” in the federal government while criticizing its use in the private market. He furthermore removed pro-LGBT information from governmental websites.
This has Professor Erin Rand concerned.
“All of us are feeling pretty uneasy about what our jobs are going to look like, especially those of us whose work is centered in questions of gender, sexuality, race and ability, ” Rand ( pictured ) told The Daily Orange. “If I’m never allowed to talk about that stuff, I don’t know what to do anymore. ”
According to the student newspaper, the doctor “feels the danger is compounded because she also identifies as gay and much of her training focuses on gay gender and girls and female studies. ”
Rand’s “research is concerned with rhetorics of sex and sexuality in common conversation, and focuses mainly on gay and lesbian modes of organization, opposition, and cultural protest, ” according to the professor’s faculty bio.
It also includes “queer children suicide, child pornography legislation, sex education for Black girls and femmes, resistant fashion for gay, trans, racist, large and crippled bodies, and modern tactics of gay social organizing, ” according to the bio.
In a 2019 paper, Rand criticized a 2008 Supreme Court decision upholding a prohibition on real and virtual child pornography. The professor wrote that the decision “circulate[s ] a strategic figuration of the child that emphasizes its sexual purity, vulnerability, and whiteness, and disavows the queerness of childhood desires. ”
Other Syracuse affiliates have found ways to cope, such as through crafts, according to the student newspaper.
However, Lavie Bunnage, who takes transgender drugs, is worried.
“It’s a constant misery, ” Bunnage said. “So many of my friends are direct targets of what he’s doing, ” referring to Trump.
The newspaper reported on a “700 % ” increase in calls to the pro-LGBT Trevor Project’s “hotline ” since Trump’s election.
“Many LGBTQ+ students are worried about not only anti-trans legislation, but also anti-trans rhetoric that will affect them under Trump’s second presidency, ” the student newspaper reported. “As anti-LGBTQ+ legislation continues to pass, the LGBTQ+ community only suffers from more stress. ”
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