by Ty Davison | Apr 18, 2023 | News & Commentary
Some Portland officers responded to LGBTQ+ training with racist feedback, report says – oregonlive.com: All officers last year were required to complete online training called “2022 Vocabulary in the LGBTQIA2S+ /Queer Community” as the bureau adopted...
by Ty Davison | Mar 23, 2023 | News & Commentary
Nyssa parents decry outdoor school gender pronoun policy – Salem Reporter: Parents called on the Nyssa School Board during its Monday, March 13 meeting to pull out of a fifth-grade field trip paid for and hosted by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry after...
by Ty Davison | Feb 25, 2021 | News & Commentary
When the “Violence” Isn’t Violent – Persuasion: This reconception of violence is more than another shift in the English language. It’s a series of deliberate word choices used to equate nonphysical offenses to physical harm. Too often,...
by Ty Davison | Dec 7, 2020 | News & Commentary
Supreme Court rejects appeal over Oregon school district’s restroom policy for transgender students – oregonlive.com: The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using locker...
by Ty Davison | Aug 21, 2020 | News & Commentary
The Joy of Appropriation – Persuasion: I want to focus here on the kind of case that is now most frequently derided as “problematic”: freely adopting aspects of another culture simply because one values them as crystallizations of human excellence....