The BYU Anti-racism club recently held a speaking event titled, “We Can’t Belong Ourselves: Creation of Community Precedes a Sense of Belonging,” which was advertised on their Instagram. The event featured Jacob Rugh, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at BYU, and Anthony Bates, the managing director of the BYU Sorensen Center for…
Intermountain healthcare recently added a presentation video on cross-sex hormone therapy to its YouTube videos under the Project ECHO channel. The presenter, Rixt Luikenaar, said that cross sex testosterone therapy does not cause infertility in women who have started periods. Luikenaar also added, “[W]e don’t know why” PCOS is at a 50% rate in women…
Over the 2022-23 school year, the BYU Office of Civic Engagement (OCE) Instagram account has drawn concern from BYU students. The (OCE) website states their mission is “to provide students and faculty with the appropriate skills and meaningful opportunities to become engaged in their respective communities. We seek to promote civic service and to encourage…
BYU, as part of its antiracism project started in 2020, has created a new antiracism database. The goal of their project, as stated on the website, is to “promote and support antiracist actions at BYU to create a more inclusive, loving, safe, Christlike, Zion campus.” The antiracist database provides a searchable catalog of materials that…
During a February 14 presentation on gender surgery, a doctor associated with Intermountain Healthcare commented that he has performed top surgery on minors. Primary Children’s Hospital (PCH), a part of the Intermountain Healthcare (Intermountain) system, also appears to be limiting information about its adolescent gender clinic on its website, referring to it only as the…
On January 24, the Utah Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing for the proposal of HB132 and SB16. HB132 failed to pass and would have banned hormonal and surgical interventions for minors related to gender. However, SB16 has now passed in the Utah house and senate as of January 26. It will ban…
Saturday, September 17 at the BYU v Oregon football game, the Cougars lost to the Ducks 20-41. This disheartened many BYU Football fans after their recent upset against Baylor on September 10th. However, taking to Twitter the next day, the trending topic was not the loss, but instead a video of a portion of the…
An alleged racist incident occurred during a BYU Women’s Volleyball game on Friday, August 26, 2022. In a public statement given on Sunday, African-American Duke Volleyball player Rachel Richardson claimed, “[I] was targeted and racially heckled throughout the entirety of the match. The slurs and comments grew into threats… Both officials and BYU coaching staff…