Las Positas College Athletics aligns with the College’s nondiscrimination policy:

Las Positas College adheres to all federal, state, and, where applicable, local civil rights laws banning discrimination in private institutions of higher education. The College will not discriminate against any employee, applicant for employment, student or applicant for admission on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, ethnicity, national origin (including ancestry), citizenship status, physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, veteran or military status (including special disabled veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, or recently separated veteran), predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status or any other protected category under applicable local, state or federal law, including protections for those opposing discrimination or participating in any grievance process on campus or within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or other human rights agencies.

Discrimination
Discrimination is defined as treating members of a protected class less favorably because of their membership in that class or as having a neutral policy or practice that adversely impacts the members of one protected class more than others.

Discriminatory Harassment
Students, staff, administrators, and faculty are entitled to a working environment and educational environment free of discriminatory harassment. The College condemns and will not tolerate discriminatory harassment against any employee, student, visitor or guest on the basis of any status protected by College policy or law. Harassment constitutes a form of discrimination that is prohibited by law. Harassment is defined as subjecting an individual to unwelcome conduct, whether verbal or physical, that creates an intimidating, hostile, or abusive working, learning or campus living environment; that alters the conditions of employment or education; or unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work or academic performance on the basis of the individual’s membership in a protected class. Harassment may include, but is not limited to: verbal abuse; slurs; negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating or hostile acts; denigrating jokes; insulting or obscene comments or gestures; and display or circulation (including in hard copy, by email or text, or through social media) in the working, learning and living environment of written or graphic material that degrades or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual or group. Sexual harassment and gender-based harassment (later defined in further detail) are forms of discriminatory harassment.

Gender-Based Misconduct
Gender-based misconduct is a broad term that encompasses gender-based harassment, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, stalking, dating violence, and domestic violence. Acts of aggression, intimidation, stalking, or hostility based on gender or gender-stereotyping constitute gender-based harassment. Gender-based harassment can occur if individuals are harassed either for exhibiting what is perceived as a stereotypical characteristic of their sex, or for failing to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity. To constitute harassment, the conduct must reasonably interfere with another person’s education or participation in educational programs or activities or work, or create an intimidating, hostile, demeaning, or offensive working, academic, or living environment.