Transgender Student Sues University of Arkansas

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BY Diane Anderson-Minshall

Was Jennifer Braly banned from speaking because she’s transgender?

By all accounts, Jennifer Braly is a good student. The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith psychology major carries a 3.58 GPA, according to the Arkansas Times, and has been a popular guest lecturer in psychology and sociology classes. Braly, 36-years-old and transgender, has given about 20 faculty-sanctioned lectures on gender dysphoria, and at least one professor has written her a letter of recommendation saying Braly’s talks “open the doors to a greater understanding and appreciation of this too often misunderstood disorder.”

But, according to both the Times and the student newspaper, the Lion’s Chronicle, Braly was recently forbidden by school administrators from giving any more guest lectures, even when the professor’s have requested her to do so. Several professors supported Braly, one even cancelling her class instead of hosting it without the student lecturer. Braly, who sued the university earlier this year for discrimination in both restroom and housing policies, thinks the ban on her speaking to classes may be a way for the university to silence criticism of their transgender policies.

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