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The board of trustees for City College of San Francisco is expected to endorse state legislation that would outlaw deadnaming public college students on their diplomas and other academic records. The public community college adopted such a policy in 2020. Trustee Tom Temprano, a gay man who is vice president of the community college board, introduced the resolution in support of Assembly Bill 245. The college board will vote on it when it meets Thursday. Both the resolution and adoption of the state bill will send a message of needed support to transgender and nonbinary students at a time whe...

For a year UC Berkeley graduate Juniperangelica Cordova's original diploma sat on a bookshelf in her Alameda home wrapped in the envelope it arrived in. Seeing it on a daily basis would have been too upsetting for the Los Angeles native who came out as transgender while in high school at the age of 15. The East Bay university had used Cordova's deadname on the document it issued to her in late 2019 rather than her lived name. After raising a complaint with campus administrators about the mix-up, Cordova received a new diploma with her correct name on it in late November. She promptly had it f...