Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After some debate, the council complied with Myers' request to include the idea of gender-expression in its non-discrimination clause, which applies to all student groups who receive funding from the council...
Nancy R. Nangeroni, an MIT graduate and Cambridge resident who is "not content to be simply [male or female]", says there is no harm in "allowing people to self-determine gender", despite the American Psychiatric Association (APA) classification of transsexualism as a "sexual deviation...
Nangeroni and activists on campus say Harvard should ignore that definition and let students self-determine their gender for the purposes of housing and athletic teams...
...administrators who met with the undergraduate Transgender Task Force last year seem to be receptive to the idea of discounting the APA's designation though they have yet to make a definitive decision on the validity of self-determination of gender...
...some psychiatrists, such as Charles W. Socarides '45, agree with the APA's designation and believe that people who want to change their gender should be treated through psychoanalysis...