Last month, Simon Price graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. But his last semester in school turned into an ugly scene after he was assigned a project for a class called “Songwriting and Social Change.” The project was to put together a public event about a social issue the student felt passionate about. White other students did projects about homelessness and eating disorders, Price decided he would talk about his own experience living as a trans person for 3 years before detransitioning.
In middle school, my peers targeted me with homophobic bullying. They called me slurs, threatened me, and made me afraid and uncomfortable in my own body. At 13, I told my parents that I was bisexual. A year later, I declared that I was a girl. I demanded — with the support of my therapist and pediatrician — access to cross-sex hormones…
At 17, I started the long process of desistance and social detransition.
Price went through all the normal steps to complete his assignment. He discussed his plans with his professor. He secured a room to hold the event. He arranged for security and even got funding from the Office of Diversity & Inclusion to fund it. It wasn’t until he took the next step of advertising the event online that things took a turn.
Individuals on Instagram said they were going to throw “expired groceries” at him, demanded that he be kicked out of school, and told him he should be “scared” to host the event.
Students also got 1,998 signatures for an online petition urging the college to cancel the event, claiming it was “expected to harm the mental well-being of individuals in the transgender community.”
On Oct. 17, Amaya Price met with Berklee Vice President and Executive Director Ron Savage, who recommended postponing the event for safety reasons and promised to help Amaya Price find a different venue. But instead, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion posted to its Instagram that the event “will no longer take place as planned on October 20” and will “not be sponsored” by the Office.
On Oct. 21, Savage indefinitely postponed the event. […]
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