It’s amazing that safe spaces are still a thing.
Campus Reform reports:
North Dakota State pushes ‘Safe Zone’ trainees to sign LGBTQ ‘ally’ pledgeNorth Dakota State University (NDSU)’s “Safe Zone” training materials for the spring semester prompt participants to sign a pledge to be a registered ally to the “gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, intersex or transgender community.” Those who sign the pledge are added to a campus list of registered allies.According to the public university’s website, Faculty Affairs is sponsoring three “Safe Zone” trainings in March and April, titled “Becoming an Ally,” “Gender Identity and Expression,” and “Upstander.”“Voicing your support for LGBTQ people is powerful,” the university’s description says. “Whether you are challenging a stereotype, correcting a misrepresentation or merely voicing your support for a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender friend, relative or colleague, you can make change happen.”Campus Reform obtained the slides and training materials through a public records request earlier this month.The first training introduces students to the LGBTQ lexicon, defining terms like “Transgender/ Transitioning,” “Queer/ Questioning,” and “Asexual.”One slide makes distinctions between “Gender Identity,” “Gender Expression,” “Sexual Orientation,” and “Romantic Orientation,” which can all appear in one person. The slide teaches participants that a person can be assigned male at birth, identify as “Genderqueer,” express feminine traits, have a “Pansexual” orientation, and be romantically oriented as “Polyamorous.”The training also warns against “Heteronormativity,” which it defines as the “assumption that traditional gender identities, gender expressions, sexual orientations, and family structures are ‘normal’.”
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