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Charlie Yale
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: The Trump administration has used its power to marginalize transgender people to the point of rejecting the fact of their existence. If the Senate passes the language of H.R.28, legal protections against discrimination for trans students across the country could be in jeopardy, and the situation for trans students — including those on our own campus — could become far more dire than it already is.
That is why Princeton must take action to bolster resources and current protections for transgender students outside of Title IX as well as release a statement clearly condemning the legislation.
It makes sense that the same publication that has run non-stop editorial interference in support of the genocide in Gaza, would be promoting the participation of biological males in women’s sports and mourning its loss. Princeton used to have a variety of opinion. I don’t remember people with such anti-social viewpoints being evaluated so consistently. Actually, I do. It started with Princeton cheerleading the disastrous and immoral invasion of Iraq.
The shooting at Brown is deeply tragic. But it is not the time for mere thoughts and prayers. It hasn’t been for decades. As another Ivy League university, this moment calls for Princeton to stand in solidarity with the victims of the Brown shooting by pushing for significant reform to fight violence. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is uniquely equipped as the past chair and active board member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) — an organization with a precedent of condemning gun violence — to lobby for gun reform policies on the national and state level.
A discussion about Fizz and the role of social media in our discourse took place at Princeton University on December 3rd, 2025, hosted by the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC) and funded by Princetonians for Free Speech (PFS), While the discussion has been lauded as an example of what can come about through open and civil exchange of ideas, several questions remain worth considering. What is the place of anonymous speech in our society? Should someone take responsibility for the things they say? Or has our public discourse been hollowed out by social media to the point where online commentary should be considered performative?
Tal Fortgang ‘17
When Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber spoke at Harvard on November 5, 2025, he expressed what to his detractors may have sounded like an epiphany. “There’s a genuine civic crisis in America,” he said, noting how polarization and social-media amplification have made civil discourse uniquely difficult. Amid that crisis, he concluded, colleges must retain “clear time, place, and manner rules” for protest, and when protesters violate those rules, the university must refuse to negotiate. As he warned: “If you cede ground to those who break the rules … you encourage more rule-breaking, and you betray the students and scholars who depend on this university to function.”
Dennis Doherty
February 07, 2025
I disagree with the underlying premise of this article, that the actions of the Trump administration have marginalized trans people to the extent of rejecting the fact of their existence and am alarmed and offended at the gaslighting in it warning of dystopian consequences of passing HR.28. The new administration aims to curb the excesses in this area that have occurred under the previous administration in particular, which aimed to propel the trans community into a privileged class.
I heard similar dystopian prognostications back in Trump’s previous administration which never came to pass. Those prognosticators never acknowledged that and continue to raise false alarms. Maybe time to engage in considered dialogue to persuade rather than fear monger.