After the students went on strike for 17 days, they got support from the Rectory
Last Friday, the 20th, the strike at the State University of Campinas came to an end with achievements for the LGBTQIAPN+ community. The institution’s students spent 17 days on strike and, in the end, got support from the Rectory to adopt quotas for transgender people.
According to Unicamp, the representatives of the student movement accepted the administration’s proposals and, as a result, achieved quotas for transgender people. In addition to the quotas, policies will be assigned for inclusive bathrooms and the elimination of the institutional use of names that are written on the birth certificate.
In addition to trans quotas, there will also be workshops to combat transphobia in the academic community and training to discuss combating gender and sexual violence at universities.
The adoption of quotas for the transgender population is something new. The first institution to implement the policy in Brazil was the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), in 2018 and, in the following year, the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), also started to adhere to the quotas.
In addition to rights for people in the LGBTQIAPN+ community, the strike enabled quotas for PCDs and achievements such as a tray on weekends, readjustment of permanence grants and anti-racist training for teachers.
Source: Maxima
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