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1. UCLA is in negotiations with Trump. Now we know the demands. Trump wants a statement that UCLA does not recognize trans student identities, a ban on youth care at UCLA clinics, bathroom bans, and more. Students are fighting back. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Trump's UCLA Settlement Proposal Reveals Massive Anti-Trans Attacks: Students And Faculty Fight Back

It’s not only students and faculty who have something to lose—countless doctors, trans youth, and families could see health care vanish.

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2. A billion-dollar settlement with the federal government could erode civil rights for trans students, faculty, and patients at the UCLA and its health centers. Now, community advocates are calling for the university system’s governing body—the Board of Regents—to hold the line and not capitulate.

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Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image

The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.

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3. Over 1,600 members of the University of California community signed an open letter, including renowned queer scholar and UC Berkeley professor Judith Butler, calling on the university system to resist Trumpian efforts to rebuild UCLA “in a conservative image,” sites.google.com/view/save-uc...

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Tell the UC Regents and governor newsom: don't sell out our healthcare to trump!

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4. Demands include: - Care stopage for trans youth at 300 UCLA clinics - A bathroom ban - A statement that UCLA does not recognize transgender student's identities - Attacks on DEI, immigrants, and anti-genocide protestors
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5. Governor Gavin Newsom, who has come under fire for his repeated attempts to break bread with anti-trans fascists and torpedo LGBTQ civil rights legislation, condemned the move as “extortion.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/ca-gov-gav...

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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast

The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

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6. “The University of California is signaling that they are willing to use the elimination of gender-affirming and trans healthcare as a bargaining chip," reads the open letter. “​​These efforts to eliminate gender-affirming care for trans people are rooted in vengeance and dogma, not in science.”
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7. Brown University and Columbia University seemingly sought to appease the current Administration by capitulating, leading to many trans youth being stripped of evidence-based, life-saving health care. It has also led to discriminatory policies against its own trans students.

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8. Meanwhile, subpoenas have been used to terrorize university health systems that treat trans youth, casting wide-reaching nets to dredge up as much personal information as possible about doctors and patients. But some—including Boston Children’s Hospital—have fought back with promising results.

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Boston Children’s Fights Back For Trans Kids: Judge Quashes Trump Subpoena

Around 2,000 BCH employees and untold numbers of patients were targeted by the DOJ. A judge just told them, “No.”

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9. Advocates are also calling on community members to voice opposition to any capitulation at the Board meetings on September 16 and 17, at the University of California - San Francisco. Public comment will take place on Tuesday, September 16 at 3:00 p.m. and Wednesday, September 17 at 8:30 a.m.

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Notice of Regents Meeting, September 16-17, 2025 | Board of Regents

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Show threadLukefromDCSep 16, 2025
@erininthemorning.com UCLA needs to go hard no-quarter on this. Remain independent or shut down and continue the classes in parks
Show threadJargogglesSep 16, 2025
@LukefromDC @erininthemorning.com
Fascists are like blackmailers, complying only emboldens them to demand more. It's pointless to give them anything they want.
Show threadAssimilateborgSep 16, 2025
@erininthemorning.com turn all bathrooms to unisex. Remove all gender information data from all records. Done.
Show threadMark T. TomczakSep 16, 2025
@erininthemorning.com At this point the price is really just too high. It'd be way better for UCLA to figure out how to tuck into reduced income for three years.