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First of all, I am personally insulted that the authors would call the current bathroom situtation, with respect to transgendered individuals, a ‘petty’ issue. Is verbal and physical abuse a ‘petty’ concern? What about being arrested for entering the ‘wrong’ bathroom? Granted, I know of no Harvard-specific examples of transgendered individuals (or any other individuals, for that matter) being arrested for entering the bathroom of the ‘wrong’ gender, but there are certainly incidences of this...
Even without Harvard examples of actual arrest or physical abuse, however, verbal abuse due to bathroom confusion certainly takes place on this campus, and has happened to me personally several times, at least once in interactions with professional proctors during exam period. For the record, I do not identify as a transgendered individual, but I am a somewhat androgynous-looking (both by choice and by genetics) woman who often has trouble ‘passing’ as a member of my own gender. I certainly would not feel more comfortable entering a men’s restroom, although...
...also offended that the authors would equate ‘mere convenience’ with the aforementioned plight of transgendered individuals attempting to find a safe bathroom. For one thing, a straight, non-gender queer individual can easily enter an opposite-gender marked single occupancy restroom and, if approached on exit, shrug and explain that he/she really had to go; I have done it in gas stations, and really nobody cares. But a trans individual (or even a queer individual such as myself) trying to enter a public, multiple-occupancy restroom faces the threat of verbal and physical abuse, angry...
...first amendment, proposed by Joseph R. Oliveri ’05, called to strike a clause from the bill that allowed people to use the bathroom that they deem appropriate. Oliveri said he was concerned that permitting such free reign could lead to more assaults in campus bathrooms...
...This is about safety for the overwhelming majority of the campus,” Oliveri said. “There is probably no place on campus that people are more exposed than in the bathroom...