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L'ACLU de Rhode Island, GLAD Law et le Centre pour la justice de Rhode Island réagissent à l'accord de l'Université Brown d'adopter le libellé du décret anti-transgenre de l'administration Trump. 

Brown University’s agreement with the Trump administration is profoundly disturbing. We are especially alarmed by the university’s seeming willingness to use transgender people as a bargaining chip by adopting the narrow definition of sex from the administration’s discriminatory executive order that denies transgender people’s existence.  
 

We stand with all students, faculty, and staff who feel hurt, disrespected, and fearful following the announcement of this agreement. It is shocking that an institution that has long welcomed, celebrated, and protected LGBTQ+ people on campus would so quickly cave in to the administration’s cruel and coercive agenda. 

 
Brown University has responsibilities to support all students, faculty and staff — including transgender individuals — under state and federal law, and we hope they will continue to do so despite this announcement. We encourage any members of the Brown community directly affected by new policies related to the university’s adoption of the definition of sex in the Trump administration’s anti-transgender executive order to contact one of our organizations. 

Our democracy can’t function without independent institutions of higher learning to develop and safeguard the knowledge and tools we need to advance the values and ideals of a healthy, thriving society. Yet the Trump administration is engaged in an unremitting campaign to undermine these institutions and values. Students and faculty alike need the freedom and resources to think, study, learn, research, and innovate if our country is to remain a leader in our increasingly complex world. We hope other universities and educational institutions will stand strong against this administration’s bullying and coercion to protect the core values of the pursuit and protection of knowledge and understanding, academic freedom, freedom of expression, and openness to a range of different perspectives and experiences.