Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department hosts LGBTQ+ panel – The Temple News

Professor Dara Purvis discussed the series of Executive Orders targeting transgender people at a recent University faculty panel. “It’s direction, it’s not law,” Purvis said. “That’s the important thing. It is a direction to the executive branch, which includes agencies saying, ‘Here’s how I, the president, want you to implement, to execute the law.’ It doesn’t overrule statutes. It doesn’t change the language of statutes. It doesn’t overrule Supreme Court decisions. But it can have a lot of impact.”