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THIS WEEK ON XTRA MAGAZINE

As more courses move online during COVID-19, many Canadian students are being deadnamed by their post-secondary institutions. Writer Marsha McLeod surveyed 50 universities and colleges across the country to understand why the issue keeps emerging—and finds that correcting the issue often requires trans and non-binary students to jump through hoops.

QUEER NEWS AROUND THE WORLD

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has made his first LGBTQ2S+ appointment: Carlos Elizondo will be the first Latinx person and second gay man to serve as White House Social Secretary. Plus, a new independent report finds rampant issues of homophobia, sexism and racism within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police service.

TBH, CULTURE IS QUEER

Who asked for this? America’s queen of fracking, RuPaul, is going full capitalism this Christmas. The drag icon and host of RuPaul’s Drag Race signed a deal with Old Navy for a four-part holiday series, RuPaul-idays. And Mike Tyson said trans rights: On a recent episode of his podcast, Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson, the former boxer came to the defence of Dwyane Wade’s 13-year-old daughter, who identifies as trans, after his guest, rapper Boosie Badazz, stated he was “offended because it’s a child.”

All these stories and much more in this week’s Xtra Weekly.