Stand up by back and trans people are under attack. What do we do? Stand up by back and queer people are under attack. What do we do? Stand up by back. Last week's Senate agenda appeared to be business as usual, but this week's meeting was anything but normal. After making anti-LGBTQ plus statements last week, ASUC Senator Isabella Chow met with backlash. It was standing room only in the Senate chambers. Supporters of Chow and a vast majority of protesters spoke. ASUC tells us that over 100 public comments were made in the span of three hours. So maybe the Senator who is sitting here right now too can as well. We should all be the only ones commanding for your peer who have said these things going against the ASUC Constitution. I am ashamed of bell sitting here who are not denounced her. A petition circulated prior to the meeting calling for Chow to resign. Other calls included the possibility of a recall as well as urging the ASUC to revoke sponsorship from the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship who actively supported Chow. Undergrad, grad students and even alumni took to the podium. Tonight is not about bullying Senator Chow, but making our campus and wider community understand the impacts of invalidating and demeaning rhetoric. Tonight is not about free speech, but about the separation of prejudice and personal beliefs with institutional policy. Tonight is not about dismissing the Christianity as universally toxic, but about validating the experience of those at the hands of bigots who have cowardly hid behind religion to justify their actions. Supportive Chow also spoke at the beginning of the meeting and left midway. A huge banner tripped over the back of the chambers read Senator Chow resign now. Would you not agree that conservatives and Christians on campus are not marginalized groups? Who is the standard solidarity with us? Who is the standard solidarity with us if the representatives that we choose to represent us are virtual or party and threatened with expulsion and recall vote the moment they decide to abstain on a center resolution that they do not agree with? Other speakers also question what student action who disaffiliated from Chow will do to address the matter further. Former ASUC presidential candidate, Gia Cordova. Senator Chow declined to comment after the meeting. Lely Eppsah for CalTV News.