The University of Melbourne is set to finalise its new “Gender Affirmation Policy,” which will ban speeches, behaviours, or activities suspected of posing “potential harm” to transgender people at the university. The policy, which was introduced some months ago as part of the school’s Diversity and Inclusion policy and is now open for feedbacks, aims to promote and normalise the acceptance of gender identity and expression on campus. When enacted, the draft will allow transgender members to choose any bathroom facilities that most closely align with the gender they identify with. All university members will also be required to address transgender members in names or pronouns as affirmed by the transgender person. Deliberately failing to do so (such as using ‘he’ instead of ‘she’), will be considered as committing “unlawful” behaviours. The same applies to disclosing someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity without permission. Gender identity is defined as a person’s …