[news] UM Senate Assembly to Vote on Gender Identity Bylaw

from our friend, Professor Frier...

Next Monday, April 17, the Senate Assembly (the governing body of the University Faculty) will consider the attached resolution which favors changing Regents Bylaw 14.06 to include "gender identity and gender expression." The resolution also favors corresponding changes in the Standard Practice Guides.

I did not originally draft this resolution myself, but I was (as an incoming member of SACUA) given some freedom to influence its wording; in particular, on my urging the resolution was expanded to include Bylaw change. In that respect, the most important likely consequence of the resolution is to prevent false implications being drawn from Faculty failure to act on this issue. I had originally brought this matter to the attention of SACUA, and Jackie Simpson and others had major influence on SACUA's subsequent deliberations.

You are all certainly free to attend the Senate Assembly meeting if you wish, and, if you are a member of the Faculty, also to address the meeting, although only the elected members of Senate Assembly may vote on the resolution. I expect the resolution to be carried easily, but there was one negative vote in SACUA. (The negative vote will probably not be reported publicly.)

The Senate Assembly will meet in the Rackham Amphitheater from 3:15 to 5:00. Discussion of the resolution is currently scheduled for 3:30. B.