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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.
Keith E. Whittington
The Volokh Conspiracy, Reason Magazine
Excerpt: Yesterday the Trump administration launched yet another massive financial blow at a university because it has done some things the administration does not like. This time the University of Pennsylvania's medical research is being decimated because the administration disagrees with the Penn athletic department's transgender policies.
Elisabeth Stewart and Luke Grippo
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: Princeton will freeze most faculty and staff hiring, citing uncertainty around federal funding and a potential increased endowment tax, according to a memo sent to faculty and staff Wednesday morning. The letter, from Provost Jennifer Rexford and Executive Vice President Katie Callow-Wright, follows many other universities adopting hiring freezes in response to funding uncertainty. It represents the University’s most significant response to date to recent federal actions.
Daily Princetonian Editorial Board
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: Some institutions have been cowed by threats from the federal government. This acquiescence is dangerous. Complying with constitutionally contested directives before judges rule on their legality normalizes them. As Columbia’s example has taught us, even repeated concessions to the Trump administration won’t protect you. As an institution relatively insulated from financial shocks from the federal government, we have a unique responsibility to speak out. Even among the Ivy League, Princeton’s wealth, prestige, and historical reputation as the most conservative Ivy give the University unique influence.
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.