Good morning!
Between the Obama-era’s “Dear Colleague” letter regarding Title IX and trans students, and then the recent administration’s…I don’t know…muffled walk-back of that “Dear Colleague” letter, how do your campuses handle situations where an applicant or student wishes to change their sex in your SIS? If I understand rightly, it seems that we have the option of following the original “Dear Colleague” letter; it just won’t be enforced by the current DoE. So I’m wondering:
- Has your campus created new policies or practices for handling and changing sex/gender to align with that “Dear Colleague” letter? If so, omg please share?
- If not, what are your pre-letter policies/practices?
- How do your policies, processes, and applications account for the inconsistent and sometimes inaccurate use of language regarding “sex” vs “gender”? Banner, for instance, records “gender” but means “sex.” Montana law does the same, and a quick spot-check seems to show that a lot of our applications do as well. But for students to whom it matters, they definitely know the difference between “gender” and “sex” and will self-report accordingly. So….how do we ask a student to follow a process for changing their sex in Banner, when “sex” was literally never requested or recorded?
I don’t think students should be at the mercy of SIS software or an IPEDS report, but I also don’t want to get cross-wise with the feds. I appreciate your expert advice!
| Joe Simonsen | |
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