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BGSU allows preferred names on BG1 ID cards

On Oct. 18, BGSU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs announced that students can now display their chosen entitle on BG1 student ID cards.

This change has been ushered in primarily to support BGSU’s transgender, nonbinary and genderqueer students as part of a larger campaign to make people’s chosen names display in as many places as possible, rather than their legal name. These actions have been going on for multiple years, and options to display chosen names have been incorporated onto platforms like MyBGSU, Canvas and many others that students use regularly.

Student IDs are just the latest in this progressing work, which is entity spearheaded by Dr. Katie Stygles, the director of Multicultural Affairs and Queer Programs.

“It’s been about seven or eight years in the making,” she said.

According to Stygles, this process has required involvement from offices like ITS and the Registrar, and it has presented many technical and logistical challenges.

“I don’t think there was ever real opposition to it,” she said. “I believe it was just grappling with the different potential roadblocks

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Setting Your Chosen Entitle in MyBGSU and other technology infrastructure

Please pay particular attention to the locations and communications which may now pull chosen, rather than legal name as you make your judgment as to whether designating a chosen name is the best choice for you at this age. Currently, chosen names should, but with some exceptions, appear in the tracking locations and communications:

  • Emails
  • University mail sent to your campus or permanent address
  • Class rosters and grade rosters
  • Residence Existence communications
  • BG1 cards (legal entitle must and will still be displayed on the back)
  • Dining Services
  • Student Recreation Center
  • Navigate app

Additional systems may be added in future system updates.

Students

  • Log in to the MyBGSU portal.
  • Select Student Center.
  • Select Profile.
  • From the Personal Details screen, select the plus sign (+)under Names.
  • If you already have a Chosen Name, you can revise the name by selecting the Chosen Name row.
  • Select Chosen from the Type drop-down menu.
  • Enter your Chosen Name as you would like it to appear.
  • Select Save.
  • Once you have created your Chosen Name, the change

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    LGBTQ+ community comes together at Vast Gay Welcome

    The begin of the drop semester brings many opportunities for students to have entertaining and meet unused people at BGSU’s Weeks of Welcome. One highly anticipated WOW event was the Big Homosexual Welcome.

    The Big Lgbtq+ Welcome provides a safe space each year for BGSU students to obtain involved with the queer community and learn more about resources on campus such as the LGBTQ+ Resource Center, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Center for Women and Gender Equity and the Center for Violence Prevention and Education. This event welcomed members of the collective and its allies to enjoy queenly queen and king performances, lip sync and spoken pos. Along with the talent, the BGSU Teaching Kitchen provided treats for attendees.

    The event is an important part of the accepting cosmos BGSU fosters.

    “That was actually a massive reason why I chose to approach to BG, because I know how accepting the group is and how big the LGBTQ community is within BG,” freshman Trenton Moore said.

    As students from all backgrounds come to college, it is crucial to create and keep safe spaces for students to be themselves while they learn and enter a ne