Transgender bill. After Ghomeshi. Refugees once more. Hacking electricity.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• CNW/Telbec posted a release announcing the participation of Simone de Beauvoir Institute principal and associate professor of political science Kimberley Manning in a news conference in Quebec City that followed yesterday's tabling by a Québec Solidaire MNA of proposed legislation to allow transgender children to change their gender on their birth certificates. The release mentions that Manning is the mother of a ten-year-old transgender girl. The Montreal Gazette publishes an opinion piece by Manning in which she calls on the Liberal government of Philippe Couillard to allow the bill's passage into law.
• Jennifer Drummond, coordinator of the Sexual Assault Resource Centre, participated in an hour-long call-in show with CBC Radio Noon host Shawn Apel, yesterday (no link available). The topics discussed revolved around the conclusion of the Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial. With the last charge against Ghomeshi now dropped, Drummond and callers to the show considered how survivors will be impacted and whether they will be less likely to report assaults against them.
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia, is quoted in La Presse + about a decision announced by the government of Kenya to close the Dadaab refugee camp and expel its 344-thousand inhabitants, mostly Somalis.
• Mourad Debbabi, professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) is quoted in  a piece in Inside Sources dealing with cybersecurity. Debbabi warns that the electric utility industry is at risk of cyberattack.

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