Protected class vs. protected class.
Via Campus Reform:
University at Albany students are protesting the local Capital Region Pride Center for allegedly failing to be inclusive toward transsexuals.
About a dozen demonstrators came out to protest the center last Friday, urging its employees to do a better job of representing all members of the LGBTQ community and increase diversity among its board of directors.
Iliana Muro, a student at UAlbany and a critic of the Pride Center, alleges that its employees “deadname” and misgender their trans colleagues while barring trans people of color from leadership positions.
In an interview with Campus Reform, Muro explained that “deadnaming” refers to calling a transgender person by their birth name while misgendering occurs when an individual is referred to by a pronoun with which they don’t identify.
“Everyone who’s okay with what’s going on there needs to leave…It’s just f—ing backwards,” Muro told Campus Reform.
Raven, another student at UAlbany who planned on joining the protest, said that the center’s employees are “transphobic and racist” and that “they shouldn’t have a monopoly on pride.”
“The most at risk group of people in this country are trans-women of color,” she added.