{"id":1872171,"date":"2023-03-08T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/upenn-hires-non-binary-transfeminine-fashion-model-as-lgbtq-scholar-with-anonymous-2-million-gift\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:01:17","slug":"upenn-hires-non-binary-transfeminine-fashion-model-as-lgbtq-scholar-with-anonymous-2-million-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/upenn-hires-non-binary-transfeminine-fashion-model-as-lgbtq-scholar-with-anonymous-2-million-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"UPenn Hires \u2018Non-Binary Transfeminine\u2019 Fashion Model As LGBTQ Scholar With Anonymous $2 Million Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fupenn-hires-non-binary-transfeminine-fashion-model-as-lgbtq-scholar-with-anonymous-2-million-gift%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1872171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/university-of-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a> Name &#8220;non-binary transfeminine person&#8221; Alok Vaid Menon, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lgbtq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBTQ<\/a> Scholar in Residence<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ivy-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivy League<\/a> The school has announced that Monday&#8217;s new residence, the first of its kind in the country, will be dedicated to students. &#8220;championing LGBTQ+ communities and scholarship,&#8221; Through an &#8220;anonymous&#8221; $2 million donation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a profound honor to be the Inaugural LGBTQ+ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. In the face of escalating malalignment we see a widening chasm between the reality of LGBTQ+ lives and the misrepresentation of our communities in media and society,&#8221; Vaid-Menon stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/alok-named-first-scholar-residence-penns-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. &#8220;As LGBTQ+ scholars and artists we must continue to debunk anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation while also harnessing the power of LGBTQ+ storytelling to create a more inclusive and magnificent world. I&#8217;m looking forward to connecting with Penn students, faculty, and staff to celebrate the living poetry of our existence in these turbulent times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vaid-Menon has been identified as an a &#8220;non-binary transfeminine person&#8221; Who can use it? &#8220;they\/them&#8221; Pronouns in <a href=\"https:\/\/caravanmagazine.in\/vantage\/interview-alok-vaid-menon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> The Caravan. The Caravan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alokvmenon.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> Vaid Menon, an Ivy League Scholar who is about to be enrolled in the program, identifies Vaid Menon as an &#8220;internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker&#8221; Who explores? &#8220;themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.&#8221; VaidMenon received recognition from GLAAD, Stonewall Foundation, and other prominent LGBTQ organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It will not be the first occasion that an artist is paid well by academia. Campus Reform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=17201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Vaid-Menon won $5,000 for a talk of two hours at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on the book. &#8220;Beyond the Binary,&#8221; It encourages readers &#8220;see gender not in black and white, but in full color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vaid-Menon was influenced by his personal experience &#8220;as a gender-nonconforming artist&#8221; You can do it! &#8220;gender is a malleable and creative form of expression.&#8221; Vaid-Menon, according to University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Pride Center <a href=\"https:\/\/mtouch.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=3557427614384292&#038;id=234522890008131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Students that &#8220;true freedom isn&#8217;t choosing from pre-selected, societally-accepted options, but writing in your own option for who you are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transformation Center, which is second in age and administrates the first American college fund for students who identify as LGBTQ, has the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Translation Center. &#8220;supporting students making a gender transition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two-years, the elite postsecondary school attracted national attention as Lia Thomas (a man who claimed transgender identity while competing on the school\u2019s swimming team) sparked controversy over men in male sports. Thomas was the NCAA Division I National Champion in 500-yard freestyle and also set the meet record for 200-yard freestyle in the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thomas was once surrounded by censorship, according to a female swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania swim team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-female-penn-swimmer-reacts-to-lia-thomas-victory-at-ivy-league-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> The Daily Wire &#8220;I think that there&#8217;s not really room for anyone to react to this situation in any way, other than saying they think it&#8217;s really progressive and the right thing,&#8221; Sie said. &#8220;If you want to tune into the livestreams and watch these podiums, not just the races, the podiums, and you look at the faces of the girls who are second, third, you see a smile, but they can only hold it up for so long. You can kind of see a little bit of sadness knowing that maybe they would be first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/upenn-hires-non-binary-transfeminine-fashion-model-as-lgbtq-scholar-with-anonymous-2-million-gift\">UPenn Hires \u2018Non-Binary Transfeminine&#8217; Fashion Model As LGBTQ Scholar With Anonymous $2 Million Gift<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It University of Pennsylvania Name &#8220;non-binary transfeminine person&#8221; Alok Vaid Menon, an LGBTQ Scholar in Residence It Ivy League The school has announced that Monday&#8217;s new residence, the first of its kind in the country, will be dedicated to students. &#8220;championing LGBTQ+ communities and scholarship,&#8221; Through an &#8220;anonymous&#8221; $2 million donation. &#8220;It&#8217;s a profound honor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1891090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10728,16146,6923,11403,5331,7390,7057,11641,21035,8342],"class_list":["post-1872171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-anonymous","tag-fashion","tag-gift","tag-hires","tag-lgbtq","tag-model","tag-non-binary","tag-scholar","tag-transfeminine","tag-upenn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}