The Transitive Property: Fighting the Good Fight
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 | By Cristopher Bautista

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/05/02/the-transitive-property-fighting-the-good-fight/

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We lost. The Faculty Senate passed a resolution, and ROTC is going to return to Stanford. The meeting was streamed live in Cubberley. I was present in that auditorium when the Faculty Senate voted and the resolution passed. People cheered, and in the front, someone popped open a bottle of champagne in celebration.

I remember heading over to the Law School immediately afterward. I watched as the Faculty Senate members filed out. Several of my activist friends were already there, holding up signs and chanting and condemning them for their vote. I was too tired, too numb to shout. I didn't have the strength to lift a sign. I stood to the side with my transgender friends. We didn't have to say anything. We all felt the same way. We cried.