Students who wish to identify as nonbinary on the financial aid application will now need to choose between two options as of the Trump administration’s new executive order on Feb. 4.
The executive order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” makes it so that students who are looking to use the gender-inclusive term while filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FASFA, will now only be able to identify as two genders: male or female.
“I don’t believe it’s fair and I feel like this could be a bigger issue than a lot of people may realize,” said Olivia Papandrea, a design student at San Francisco State University.
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