Members of TransUniting and the Pittsburgh Coalition to Protect Trans Lives rallied Thursday on the North Side to speak out against the University of Pittsburgh's decision to allow anti-transgender speakers on its campus.
Dena Stanley is executive director of TransUniting, she says, “this is not about feelings, this is about our lives, we are literally fighting for our life and the school doesn’t seem to care.”
Cabot Phillips, an editor from the conservative website Daily Wire, is scheduled to speak on Friday, and University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines is expected to speak next week.
Pitt says as a public university, the principles of protected speech and expression must be upheld, and the speakers are being brought to campus by student organizations that are permitted to invite speakers of their choosing.