University of California, Los Angeles

Public College in California

Widespread

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Notes:

  • Boasts its status as a "Top 10 Trans- Friendly Campus" per the Campus Pride Index.
  • Provides gender-related medical interventions under student health insurance.
  • Offers plentiful on- and off-campus resources.
  • Among other things.

Trans Activism:

Widespread

What parents, students, and staff are saying:

says:
May 19, 2025

Remember it’s home to the Williams Insistitue, which was endowed by a law alumnus who was gay, but now it’s TQ+ all the way:

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/subpopulations/transgender-people/

A current top-level story:

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/transgender-moving-desire/

A few years ago UCLA launched an investigation into whether TGs have different brains from “normal”, only to cancel it rapidly when the TGs themselves complained:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220922145840/https://radiologybusiness.com/topics/healthcare-management/leadership/ucla-suspends-brain-imaging-study-lgbtq-advocates

Rather ironic considering that an professor at UCLA was using an updated version of the lobotomy on gay men in the 1960s:

Gay Sunshine; 1972, Jun., no. 13 – Gender and Sexual Identity and Expression – Penn State University Libraries’ Digital Collections

UCLA provides care for “TG” kids too:

https://archive.is/4yTZq ~ Staff

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