Fostering community in hard times

Election post

Status
Elected
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?

I would like to continue in my role as Trans* Officer for the next coming year. I have learnt so much leading the Trans* Network this year, from how to plan and manage events for the network, to how I can best represent trans* students' voices in Student Union meetings. I do feel I have much to improve on, and hope I can continue learning, growing, and making new friends, alongside the network.

What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?

I am working on a 'Trans* Student Guide' to UCL - a booklet containing not just information as to UK trans* healthcare, charities, and the services UCL offers to trans* students, but also recommendations from trans* network members in general concerning how to make the best of student life (think book recommendations, bars, restaurants, hobbies, etc). I am hoping to have copies of this resting on UCL accommodation reception desks during welcome week, as well as during the freshers fair. I hope that I can be re-elected, so that I can see this project through to its completion and utilisation.

Please summarise why students should vote for you.

I feel I have made many connections during my time as Trans* Officer, and would like to keep welcoming new students and help foster a community in which they feel they can be safe and accepted. If re-elected, I hope to run a variety of more regular events, e.g. movie nights, bar takeovers, board game socials, etc, and I feel that my time as Trans* Officer this year has given me the skills, familiarity, and connections within the SU, to better and more quickly organise said events. I would also like to keep the 'Trans* Student Guide' active the coming year, with ongoing community contributions.

Preferred pronouns
she/her
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Fostering community in hard times
UCL is celebrating its 200th birthday in 2026. What do you think UCL will look like in 200 years time?

Hopefully, UCL will be an institution which not just welcomes trans* students, but provides them with an environment in which they are allowed to grow, prosper, and thrive as their true selves, without fear of being confronted, questioned, or having to endure the stares and side-eyes that we sometimes get now. For much of this year, there were panels in the student centre explaining how UCL was acknowledging and confronting its history of eugenics. Maybe in 200 years, we'll see a similar exhibit in the student centre concerning transphobia!