Melbourne University’s New Gender Affirmation Policy a ‘Violation of Conscience’: Expert

Melbourne University’s New Gender Affirmation Policy a ‘Violation of Conscience’: Expert
University of Melbourne's new "Gender Affirmation policy" has been under development for some months and will be finalised in several weeks, on August 5, 2016. Fabian Mardi/ Unsplash
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The University of Melbourne is set to finalise its new “Gender Affirmation Policy,” which will ban speeches, behaviours, or activities suspected of posing “potential harm” to transgender people at the university.

The policy, which was introduced some months ago as part of the school’s Diversity and Inclusion policy and is now open for feedbacks, aims to promote and normalise the acceptance of gender identity and expression on campus.
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