The Need for a Universal Minimum Age for Gender-Affirming Surgery
By Vish Karthikeyan ’27 — In September, the founding director of the Stanford LGBTQ+ Family Building Clinic, Brent Monseur, resigned amidst Stanford Medicine’s decision to pause gender-affirming surgeries for transgender patients below the age of 19. This decision was followed by the Trump administration’s executive order that outlawed “chemical and surgical mutilation of children” in…
Bernie Sanders on AI: A ‘Tsunami’ We Must Prepare For
By Evan Kim ‘29 and Alex Mondragon ‘26 — This past Friday, February 20th, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and House Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) came to speak for a Stanford Speakers Bureau event on the future of AI. The talk started with both politicians delivering monologues of their own, expressing their thoughts on the…
The Arc He Helped Bend: Remembering the Life of Jesse Jackson
By Leslie Maribel Bravo ’28 The Civil Rights activist, Reverend Jesse Jackson, passed away this morning at the age of 84. Rev. Jackson led the Civil Rights Movement after the assassination of fellow civil rights activist Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although Rev. Jackson was an aid to Dr. MLK Jr., he garnered respect and…
The Invalidity of Conservative Attacks on Social Media Content Moderation
By Surina Naran (’27) and Aadi Kucheria (’28) In the wake of January 6th, many wondered what the lasting repercussions would be. Would it be the end of democracy itself? Was it a precursor to the crumbling institutions of our republic? Years later, while many of those questions still remain, one detail of that assault…
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