我是一位女儿和儿子的父亲。我希望我的两个孩子都能在上天赋予、且合乎天意的各种机遇中成长。当我读到关于康奈尔大学兄弟会成员涉案、以及一名匿名学生描述其遭受的恐怖经历时，我会想到自己的孩子。当一些大学校园似乎更关心维护声誉而非保护学生时，我会为女儿的未来安全感到担忧。我也会想到儿子，以及我们过去、现在和将来要进行的对话——关于做一个供养者、保护者，关于他将为谁而战，尤其是在别人不愿挺身而出、在并不容易的时候。
I am father to a daughter and a son. I want both of my children to grow up with all of their God-honoring and God-given opportunities. As I read about the case involving Cornell fraternity members and the horrifying acts that an anonymous student described enduring, I think of my own children. I worry for my daughter’s future safety when some college campuses seem more concerned with protecting their reputation than protecting their students. I think about my son, too, and the conversations he and I have had and will keep having — about being a provider, a protector, and about whom he will fight for, especially when others will not and when it is not easy.
所有学生都理应在自己的学校里感到安全。这就是为什么我最近指示马里兰州高等教育委员会发布全面且可操作的建议，以改进和强化全州高等院校的校园性侵犯政策和纪律标准。确保我们的大学体制不是以一种保护暴力施害者的方式运作，这是我们对那些幸存下来的暴力受害者应尽的基本正义义务。这是底线。但如果我们的行动止步于此，那就远远不够。
All students deserve to feel safe at their own schools. That’s why I recently directed the Maryland Higher Education Commission to issue comprehensive and actionable recommendations for improving and strengthening campus sexual assault policies and disciplinary standards across the state’s institutions of higher education. Ensuring our colleges and universities aren’t set up in a way that protects perpetrators of violence is a basic act of justice we owe to those who have survived these violent acts. It’s the floor. But if it is where our action starts and ends, then we are not doing enough.
康奈尔大学这类案件反映了整个文化的失效——这种失效呼吁我们重新审视灌输给年轻男性的价值观，以及我们如何教导他们对待女性。这始于学校更好的性教育，更多父亲愿意与儿子进行艰难对话，以及男性榜样人物进行同样的对话。今年，我签署了立法，要求州教育部制定性虐待标准操作程序，每个地方学区必须予以采纳。马里兰州也是仅有的16个要求性教育涵盖同意概念的州之一。
Cases like the one at Cornell reflect a failing of an entire culture — a failure that calls us to reexamine the values we instill in our young men and how we teach them to treat women. That starts with better sex education in schools, more fathers willing to have tough conversations with sons and male role-models having these same conversations. This year, I signed legislation requiring our department of education to establish standard operating procedures on sexual abuse which every local school system must then adopt. Maryland is also one of only 16 states that require sex education to cover consent.
但这些对话不能仅在学校进行，这就是马里兰州与父母鼓励计划合作，为父亲们提供结构化课程以开展这些讨论的原因。这些对话往往只留给母亲，或者根本不发生。我三岁时父亲去世。母亲一边打多份工，一边独自抚养我和姐妹们长大。她——连同我的姐妹们——为我付出了很多，给了我很多支持和鼓励。但她无法教会我如何做一个男子汉。
But these conversations cannot only take place at school, which is why Maryland is partnering with the Parent Encouragement Program to provide a structured course for fathers to have these discussions. Too often, those conversations are left to mothers or don't happen at all. My father died when I was three years old. My mother raised my sisters and me while working multiple jobs. She — along with my sisters — did a lot to support me and lift me up. But she could not teach me how to be a man.
我与其他男性建立群体归属的场所，从篮球场到军队再到我的兄弟会，对塑造我至关重要。在这些空间里，我找到了诚信、服务、尊重和共情等价值观——这些价值观体现了兄弟情谊最好的一面。简·多伊关于康奈尔大学Chi Phi兄弟会发生的事情的指控，则体现了完全相反的一面。我了解年轻男性寻找归属感是什么滋味。
The places where I came together in community with other men were foundational in shaping me, from basketball courts to the military to my fraternity. In these spaces I found values like integrity, service, respect and empathy — values that embody brotherhood at its best. The allegations by Jane Doe about what happened at Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity embodied the exact opposite. I know what it’s like to be a young man looking for somewhere to belong.
年轻男性总是在寻找归属感，他们总会以这样或那样的方式找到它。关键在于，他们找到的空间是否能让他们变得更好、约束他们并帮助他们成长。在马里兰州，我们通过“服务年选择计划”等举措创造了这样的空间，这是一个为期一年的带薪工作机会，让年轻人通过服务社区获得指导和真实的工作经验。我们还创办了“茁壮学院”，针对风险最高的青少年，提供包括人生教练在内的个性化服务，帮助改变他们的命运。
Young men are always looking for that, and they’ll find it one way or another. What matters is whether they find spaces that make them better, hold them accountable and help them grow. Here in Maryland, we have created those spaces through initiatives like our Service Year Option, a paid year-long work opportunity that gives young people mentorship and real-world work experience through serving their communities. We also created Thrive Academy, which targets our most at-risk youth and provides them with individualized services, including a life coach, to help change their trajectory for the better.
这些项目与众不同之处在于，有投入关怀的成年人参与，有课程体系，且项目宗旨超越了个人利益。一个日益严重的大问题，不是年轻男性在现实中建立的群体，而是线上的群体。将基于性别的暴力常态化的内容泛滥成灾，且太容易让年轻人接触到。
What makes these programs different is the presence of engaged, caring adults, a curriculum and a program that is about more than just oneself. A large and growing problem is not the community young men build in-person, but online. Content that normalizes gender-based violence is pervasive and too easy for young people to access.
在马里兰州，我们正与“转移仇恨”等组织合作，寻找打断所谓“男性圈层”的途径，将男性从有害内容引导至积极资源。我们还在探索保护青少年免受深度伪造侵害的方法。马里兰州是仅有的几个，甚至可能是唯一一个设立专门工作组、专注于打击利用人工智能实施的犯罪和识别深度伪造的州份。2025年，我签署立法，扩大马里兰州的“报复性色情”法律，以保护人工智能生成的深度伪造受害者。
In Maryland, we’re working with organizations like Diverting Hate to identify ways to interrupt the so-called "manosphere" by redirecting men from harmful content to positive resources. We’re also exploring ways to protect young people from deepfakes. Maryland is one of the only, if not the only, state to have a task force that focuses on combating crimes committed using AI and identifying deepfakes. And in 2025, I signed legislation to expand Maryland’s revenge porn law to protect victims of AI-generated deepfakes.
应对性暴力的行动往往聚焦于大学或职场等机构如何能更好地保护女性。这很重要，但解决方案并不完整。我们必须同时关注如何培养更好的男性。这一当务之急，政策制定者的责任不亚于父亲、教师和导师。州和联邦层面的领导人必须采取切实行动。在马里兰州，通过“青年男性和男孩倡议”，我们正致力于解决数据显示的年轻男性和男孩落后的问题。
Too often, action to address sexual violence is focused on how institutions like universities or workplaces can better protect women. This is an important, but incomplete solution. We must also focus on how we can raise better men. That imperative falls on policymakers just as much as it does on fathers, teachers and mentors. There are tangible actions leaders at the state and federal level must take. In Maryland, through our Young Men and Boys Initiative, we are working to address the data showing young men and boys are falling behind.
但如果不同时审视年轻男性——以及保护他们的体制——如何辜负了女性，这项工作就是不完整的。我们不搞虚假二选一。振兴年轻男性和保护年轻女性不是相互竞争的使命，它们交织在一起。这要求我们培养懂得真正的力量意味着保护他人而非压倒他人的男孩。韦斯·摩尔（民主党）是马里兰州第63任州长。
But that work is incomplete if we don’t also examine how young men — and the systems that protect them — have failed women. We don’t do false choices. Lifting up our young men and protecting our young women are not competing missions. They are intertwined. And it requires raising boys who know that real strength means protecting others, not overpowering them. Wes Moore (D) is the 63rd governor of Maryland.