By Ainsley Feeney On February 13, South Dakota became the sixth state to restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth, joining Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Utah. According to the ACLU, 96 other bills in the United States seek to do the same. Now more than ever, trans youth are losing access to possibly life-saving treatment. But what is gender-affirming care, and why is it so important? Gender-affirming care is an umbrella term referring to medical procedures that allow the bodies of trans and nonbinary people to more closely...

By Amelia Pooser Posters calling for free period products, full period product dispensers, and period equity can be found plastered across campus. The accompanying QR code links to a petition that has received over 200 signatures since its debut almost three weeks ago. In an interview, Ainsley Feeney, one of the founders of this new campus-wide campaign, shared her aspirations, goals and reasoning for this new bathroom movement. The newly formed group “PMS,” short for People Menstruating in the Sound, advocates for period equity. Feeney explained the premise of the...

By Sara Orozco, KUPS Correspondent “Drugs are on campus, whether we talk about it or not,” Eliana Goldberg says. Recently, Goldberg, KUPS General Manager contacted CHWS to set up a basic training in administering Naloxone, or Narcan, as it is more commonly known. Goldberg wants to stress how important this work is on our campus. “Instead of falling into a don’t ask don’t tell mentality we should make sure that as many people are educated and prepared to make our campus as safe as we can,” Goldberg said. Narcan is...