Blåhaj Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to TransgenderEnglish · 2 months ago

BREAKING: ASU website changes 'LGBTQIA' to 'LGB' without University approval

www.statepress.com

external-link
message-square
7
link
fedilink
68
external-link

BREAKING: ASU website changes 'LGBTQIA' to 'LGB' without University approval

www.statepress.com

Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to TransgenderEnglish · 2 months ago
message-square
7
link
fedilink
BREAKING: ASU website changes 'LGBTQIA' to 'LGB' without University approval - The Arizona State Press
www.statepress.com
external-link
An ASU website's language changed from "LGBTQIA" to "LGB" and sparked backlash from the community. 
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • Of the Air (cele/celes)
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    48
    ·
    2 months ago

    For anyone or anymany not in the know ASU appears to be Arizona State University.

    • Zorsith
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      2 months ago

      Thank you! I have the same problem with OSU; there are three VERY different atates that use that acronym!!

      • Of the Air (cele/celes)
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        2 months ago

        Sure, we are happy to help!

  • GretaAintNoFlowerChild
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    2 months ago

    17 uses of “ASU” in that article… and not once did they spell out what ASU is an abbreviation of.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      2 months ago

      The State Press is specifically the student newspaper at Arizona State; the audience should know which one it is.

    • Emma Liv@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 months ago

      Everywhere is America, didn’t you know?

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    2 months ago

    Why am I not surprised the degree farm who partners with fast food companies to scam their employees with underrespected degrees would jump on this bandwagon?

Transgender

transgender

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Overview:

The Lemmy place to discuss the news and experiences of transgender people.


Rules:
  1. Keep discussions civil.

  2. Arguments against transgender rights will be removed.

  3. No bigotry is allowed - including transphobia, homophobia, speciesism, racism, sexism, classism, ableism, castism, or xenophobia.

Shinigami Eyes:

Extension for Quickly Spotting Transphobes Online.

Shinigami Eyes

iphone: unofficial workaround to use extension

Install the Orion browser then add the extension.

Related:

!lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

!intersex@lemmy.blahaj.zone


Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 85 users / day
  • 296 users / week
  • 1.64K users / month
  • 5.84K users / 6 months
  • 304 local subscribers
  • 823 subscribers
  • 1.49K Posts
  • 3.06K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
  • Diva (she/her)
  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca
  • Leaf (she/her)
  • Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.social
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org