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...unpronounceable, consonant-rife likes of the college’s BGLTSA or the divinity school’s GBLTQSIA, heteronormativity is now a condition that demands to be overcome...
...some years now, BGLTSA has been tilting at windmills to transform Harvard’s “gendered” bathrooms into “gender-neutral spaces.” The argument for the change is that those—and here’s another term to add to our overpopulated lexicon—“identifying” as transgendered feel alienated from gender-specific bathrooms, that they cannot be classified by those silhouetted stick figures, and so require a totalizing change to make them feel comfortable...
...that women might now feel more liberated by staying in the home and raising children is controversial enough. But those expecting it to be condemned at the hands of feminists, eager to see women stay in the workplace, would have been surprised. Instead, the bulk of criticism came from BGLTSA types, outraged at Mansfield’s heteronormativity...
...hear “ze” on FOP, but they might encounter it later. “People that are either queer or educated on this topic use it pretty widely,” said Noa Grayevsky ’07, community chair of Harvard’s BGLTSA. Wesleyan student Genevieve R. Angelson says “ze” isn’t exactly ubiquitous there either. “It is more frequently invoked with irony.” Or so ze says...
...emphasized the role that nature plays in gender behavior and the necessity of the traditional family structure. Audience members questioned the professor on the validity of both contentions. Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, co-chair of Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), said that members of the organization attended the event, but noted their attendance was not officially affiliated with the BGLTSA. “The issues and Mansfield’s views certainly challenged the existence of transgendered individuals, the validity and moral ethics of same sex individuals and families...