Ideas for Archiving CVs (and Why You’d Want To)

@R.O.P. Lopez: I am not sure what this story has to do with “the gay lobby”. If anything, it’s about how trans people get caught up in institutional attempts to categorize them as “male” or “female”. Gender identity is a separate issue from sexual orientation. 

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 t’s not clear that she “lied”, although her institution is treating it that way. Forcing people to classify themselves as one of two genders causes these problems. “Gender” or “Sex” is defined differently by different agencies. For example, for someone who has transitioned, the Social Security Administration requires that all surgeries be completed, while the State Department’s Passport Office does not – only that the person be under clinical treatment and be living as the gender they are claiming. Most agencies simply expect you to report the gender you are living as.  This is complicated enough for native English speakers, let alone students where English is their second language. 

This is not too far fetched; according to the U.S. Census Bureau, “race is a self-identification data item in which respondents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify.”

omg, once again I find myself agreeing with ROP.  A Baptist school is gonna have Baptist rules, and anyone enrolling in a Baptist school should know and respect that.

But I don’t understand why he keeps insisting that the Chronicle should suppress these stories.  The topic was clear enough from the headline; he didn’t have to click on it and read it.

I guess even reading the headline was too much for ROP — visions of genitals were already dancing before his eyes, even though none were mentioned in the headline (or anywhere in the item).

A Baptist  institution that accepts  federal and state financial  aid for its students has to follow non discriminatory laws.  If  it does not accept this money, then it can do whatever it wants.

The persecution of transgendered people  is particularly gross.  It is a matter of biology.  Biology is not always visible to the naked eye.  Can you see your  genes, your  molecules, all that  make up your body?  There is more, so much more, that’s invisible than what’s visible. 

In the past, and probably even now, if a baby is born with both sexual appendages, the doctor routinely cut off the incipient penis, just as they cut off an extra digit which occurs not infrequently. 

The persecution of transgender individuals is exactly the same as the persecution of anyone with a disability.  And sadly,transgender individuals are often persecuted by gay and lesbians, not to mention bis like our very own  Robert Lopez.  They are victims of the worst and most frequent hate crimes.  I applaud  this unfortunate transgendered individual to have the courage to speak out in public about her predicament. 

And no, racial identification is not self identification (though hopefully at some point in the distant future it might become so?).  It was not too long  ago that many states had “one drop rule” laws.  If you had  “one drop” of black blood (now it might be just  as delusional notion of “black  gene”!),  you were a “negro” and thus were subject to various Jim Crow laws and up to the late sixties you were not  allowed  to marry someone whose “blood was free from the taint of any black  progenitor” among any of your ancestors.

We no longer have such laws, but in the US we are very good at identifying “black  blood” from the slightest outward physiological markers.  Any hint of such markers would very recently close the doors to just about all institutions of higher learning to you and make you prey to domestic terrorism  (we  had lynchings up to the late sixties…).

Nazi laws in Germany classified an individual as a Jew if one of her sixteenth greatgrandparents had been a Jew or perceived as such.  Another precedent is serfdom in the European Middle Ages.  The turning of the  majority of the population into serfs was a gradual process, but once it got entranched,  the idendity and all that it implies (many sefs no longer  worked  the land but made money at various occupations, and they had to pay most of it to their lord) it made you a serf.  Serfdom it can be read on legal documents of the time was somthing “inherited in the womb”.  Actually one accusation of surch “serf blood” against a prominent noble in Flanders led to a civil war which lasted for years.

There are other unfortunate  examples of the one drop rule in human history.  They all have  been used for persecution and exploitation.  However, to come back to the topic at  hand, the persecution of transgender individuals (and do you really believe that its a matter of choice to be transgendered?) is gross beyond belief. 

It’s not rocket science.  If you accept financial aid for your students  you are not allowed to discriminate.  You are  not  allowed to discriminate against anyone born with a birth defect. 

If you don’t accept such money you  can do whatever you wish, but you shouldn’t have the right to call  yourself Christian if you  discriminate and persecute  people with birth defects of any kind.  Being transgendered is an attempt at remediating a  birth defect, just as  walking around with a cane and a service dog  is an attempt at remediating blindness. 

The  acceptance of  a transgendered individual is the primary test of the  sincerity of one’s claimed Christian faith.  If Jesus comes back, this is not doubt the form he/she would take.  What is it that he is supposed to have said?  Something like “the way you treat the lesser among you is the way you  treat me”?  I’m not a Christian but I seem to have  understood the lessons of the New Testament way better than most people who label themselves as such.

Transgendered indivdiuals are often discriminated/persecuted as well by gays and lesbians and bis.  Is it because so many of us are frightened by the blurring of some preconceived categories? 

PS: Anatomy 101 involves more things that are invisible to the naked eye than are visible.  You know  genes, molecules, etc etc  etc…..

“If biology no longer matters when it comes to gender identification (i.e. one can merely declare their gender identity)”

Biology does matter. Biology is the prime factor in causing a baby to look like one sex but actually be of another. 

Biology 101:  there is a lot more to your body than  meets the eyes, starting with genes and genetic mutations that can happen in the ovum  and the sperm. 

The baby resulting from these mutations will have a hard life.  It shouldn’t be the case.  The persecution of transgendered people is  beyond gross just as is the persecution  of for instance a blind baby and depring  that blind baby of remedies  such as  a service  dog.  A blind person can bring now (it wasn’t always the case!) bring a service dog with him/her to a public bathroom.  Likewise, a transgender  person should be able  to identify himself/herself  by her/his true gender rather than  original outward appearances. 

I find the persecution of transgendered  indivdiuals  by people who claim to be Christian horribly hypocritical and unChristian.  These  folks  ought to read the New  Testament,  and not do so selectively as so called “fundamentalists” so often do.  (thought there’s nothing in the Old Testament either against transgendered  individuals)

I am not a Christian  but didn’t Jesus say something to the effect:  “the way you treat the lesser among you is the way you treat me”?  If you look at hate crime statistics, it’s pretty clear that the lesser among us  are transgender  people, particularly those individuals who are supposed to be male but are actually female (sadly it works in tandem with misogyny which is allowed  to spew its hatred of women in the open with transgendered victims).  Obviously, if Jesus returns, as Christians believe, he’ll come back in the form a transgendered woman. 

Jill Davidson, you put it so clearly.  Thanks.

According to the Press-Enterprise, “Domaine Javier, 24, said university officials told her she was expelled
for falsely claiming on her application form that she is a female.
Javier revealed on MTV’s “True Life” that she is biologically male.” 

The student said one thing on the application to the college and another thing on MTV.   

Anna,
I do keep them all in the same folder. Makes it very handy to find what I need quickly when a student is standing in my office waiting for an example CV!

Great idea. I also put an extension of where I submitted the CV. In the past I have been called for job interviews for jobs which had sent in an older version months ago. As the CV is continually updated, I was unaware of which version I had submitted to a particular employer. This particularly became a problem at job interviews when the employer asked questions about an entry in a CV that I subsequently no longer included on my updated CV and was therefore no longer prepared to address.

E portfolios can be a great way to save the numerous versions as well as share it with the world. There is also the advantage of being able to upload video, audio and multiple formats. Clearly labelling the documents will help readers access the appropriate one easily – eg: 2011DecEditor.doc. As academics play multiple roles some work related like educator, administrator, editor and  other roles like creative writer, blogger, director etc … this is exceptionally helpful.

Curriculum vitae is used when one is referring to multiple curriculum vita.

I stand corrected! It’s been corrected in the post.

I agree with the ePortfolio comment. They are a great way to showcase your work but can also be used as a personal learning environment. I keep my notes and thoughts in private blogs and have different ePortfolios for different purposes.