{"id":4065,"date":"2022-03-31T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:59:13","slug":"illinois-app-deadname-issue-reignites-conversation-about-trans-issues-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/2022\/03\/31\/illinois-app-deadname-issue-reignites-conversation-about-trans-issues-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois app deadname issue reignites conversation about trans issues on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Daily&nbsp;Illini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some students were surprised when the Illinois app\u2019s building access screen switched from displaying their preferred names to displaying their legal names.&nbsp;(The building access feature is no longer used.) This incident reignited discussion regarding the experience of transgender students on campus and the University\u2019s use of deadnames \u2014 the names that transgender individuals are given at birth, which they no longer use. According to Rokwire Director Bill Sullivan, the issue was with the database. &#8220;(The) Illinois app (now) pulls the preferred name from a user&#8217;s i-card data.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyillini.com\/news-stories\/campus-life\/2022\/03\/31\/trans-issues-lgbtq-uiuc\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Illini<\/p>\n<p>Learn about how the Illinois app&#8217;s building access function ignited a conversation about displaying preferred names vs. legal names. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rokwire.illinois.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}