For a year UC Berkeley graduate Juniperangelica Cordova's original diploma sat on a bookshelf in her Alameda home wrapped in the envelope it arrived in.
Seeing it on a daily basis would have been too upsetting for the Los Angeles native who came out as transgender while in high school at the age of 15.
The East Bay university had used Cordova's deadname on the document it issued to her in late 2019 rather than her lived name.
After raising a complaint with campus administrators about the mix-up, Cordova received a new diploma with her correct name on it in late November.