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What are your top 5 issues?

The Oregon Student Equal Rights Alliance (OSERA) is a statewide organization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer identified students and their allies, as well as one of the Oregon Student Association’s three governing boards. Since 2001, OSERA has advocated for equal access to education by empowering students and strengthening the LGBTQ community. Help us determine which issues are most important to LGBTQ students on our campuses by picking your top five most important issues from those listed below. Your answers will remain confidential.

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OSERA SURVEY ISSUES

* Pick your top 5 issues from those below, ranking them in order of importance with 1 being the most important and 5 being least important.

LGBTQ HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING - LGBTQ persons are more frequently homeless than their heterosexual peer and those who conform to dominant gender norms. This becomes a barrier to post-secondary education for LGBTQ persons.

FINANCIAL AID NAME CHANGE PROCESS & RESTRICTIONS - Financial aid is based on one’s legal name as recognized by the federal government. Students who change their names for any reason are often prevented from receiving federal financial aid because the federal government does not recognize legal name changes at the state level.

DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION OF CULTURAL RESOURCE CENTERS - Safe spaces where students can be supported and connected with programming that meets the needs of our culturally diverse campuses.

CULTURAL COMPETENCY TRAINING - Our colleges and universities are increasingly comprised of students of diverse races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, economic statuses, life experiences and cultural backgrounds. Our schools need to provide members of the campus community with the training necessary to respect, foster and navigate this diversity — at school and in the workplace.

GENDER INCLUSIVE SPACES - To provide safe spaces for all students campuses need to offer restrooms, housing and other facilities designated for use by people of any and all gender identities.

DIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION - To require that our schools prepare students to meet the challenges of a diverse world, diversity education needs to be made part of all students’ graduation requirements.

WAIVE OREGON TRAIL WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS - To access Oregon’s food assistance program, low income persons must frequently meet certain work requirements which can be particularly difficult for students.

AFFORDABLE TRANSGENDER HEALTH CARE

RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS - We need to make sure our schools are working to recruit and retain students of color, LGBTQ students and other underrepresented students.

STUDENT PARENTS - Our colleges and universities should provide more services to support student parents in balancing educational and childcare commitments.

DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Please check all of the following ways you identify yourself.

* Your gender identity?
Man
Woman
Transgender
Gender Variant / Gender Queer
Questioning

* Your sex?
Male
Female
Intersex
Transexual
Questioning

* Your sexual orientation?
Heterosexual
Gay
Lesbian
Bisexual
Asexual
Queer
Questioning

ADDITIONAL IDENTIFICATION

Strong Ally to LGBTQ Community
Low Income Student
Student Parent
Differently Abled / Disabled
Veteran
First Generation Student
Non-Traditional Student
Person of Color
White / Caucasian
Multiracial / Mixed Heritage

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