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On October 30, 2025, screenshots of a required UC system harassment training for students circulated on X. The text in the screenshots stated that “dead-naming … may be a form of sexual harassment,” implying that constitutionally protected one-time comments may be punishable. This formulation appears to be based on a system-wide harassment policy that broadly defines harassment as “sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive” conduct, at odds with Supreme Court precedent. FIREsubsequently obtained the entire training, which also had a required quiz question defining “unhealthy behaviors” in part as “[c]alling a person hunk, doll, babe, or honey.” On December 4, ��֭���� wrote the UC system explaining that the harassment policy and training violate students’ free speech rights and create uncertainty as to what expression is permitted.