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Raise Your Voice panel discusses sexuality, transgender resources, rape culture

Liam Price | Monday, April 11, 2022

Editor’s note: This article includes discussions of sexual abuse. A list of sexual assault reporting options and on-campus resources can be found on the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross websites. The ongoing Raise Your Voice symposium at Saint Mary’s College held a panel Friday discussing research on sexual violence. The panel featured junior Clarissa Espinoza, senior Sarah

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We’re defending who?

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, February 17, 2022

“We’re defending YOU.” The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) — a “legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life” based in Scottsdale, Arizona — plasters this tagline on their website. This mission may seem innocuous at first glance, but even a surface-level exploration of the

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SCOP brings controversial panelists to campus to discuss transgender medicine

Mariah Rush and Serena Zacharias | Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP) hosted two panelists on campus Thursday for a lecture titled “Transgender Medicine and Children: What are the facts?” The event’s panelists included two medical doctors — Paul Hruz, a professor of pediatrics and endocrinology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Michelle Cretella, a general pediatrician

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Mother discusses transgender son, Catholicism

Jordan Cockrum | Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Members of the Saint Mary’s community gathered Monday night to listen to alumna Emily Garvey speak about her experience with her transgender son, entitled “A Theological Journey with My Transgender Son.” “She does what we want to prepare all our Saint Mary’s students to do: to take risks that matter,” Megan Zwart, professor of philosophy,

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Progress and progressivism in ‘Transparent’ season three

Adam Ramos | Tuesday, October 4, 2016

“I totally appreciate your rejection of traditional romantic relationships from a socio-political standpoint, and I agree, but I just … But I just really really like you … a lot.” Ali Pfefferman (Gaby Hoffmann), the youngest of the Pfefferman clan, admits to her older lover Lesley (Cherry Jones), succinctly capturing the frictional and human elements of