On March 2, a transgender flag—pictured above—was taken down and reported missing outside of the Queer Resource Center (QRC) serving the Claremont Colleges, a college consortium in California which includes Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges. Despite the initial assumption of the act being a result of transphobia and reported to Campus Safety, in a later email to the Claremont Colleges community, the QRC clarified that there was a misundersta

On Friday, Pomona College announced that it would begin to provide funds for students wanting to change their name or gender on legal documentation; this funding would cover application and document fees. Dean of Students Avis E. Hinkson sent an email to the student body informing them of the recent policy change, noting that the college would start providing “funds to students wishing to receive assistance with paying for typical application and document fees for changing on

Lawyers frantically scrambling to appeal court decisions. Plaintiffs citing grievances in state and federal courts. Liberal interest groups filing myriad briefs in support. Trials ending after weeks of costly litigation. Sounds like the plotline for an episode of Law & Order. Instead, this is a not-so-inaccurate characterization of what has come to embody the LGBT movement. Thirty-seven states now permit same-sex marriage. In a whopping 26 of these states, same-sex marriage w

As someone who not only opposes public funding for birth control, but also believes in axing public funding for a wide range of government programs, I was quick to pass judgment on Sandra Fluke following her speech at the Democratic National Convention. To me, her words were painfully unoriginal, re-telling the tired feminist narrative portraying conservative men as a patriarchal oppressor class trying to “control women’s bodies” in an age when contraception was more accessib