Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston senator up for reelection. Having troubles in his campaign, the JFK wannabe assigns young Marcy to go back to the "old country"--Ireland--and trace his hereditary roots. Young Marcy arrives in a small, unheard of Irish town (where men have singing competitions and buses are still gender-segregated) at the peak of a quaint annual ritual: The Match-making Festival. Being single, Marcy is a marked woman; a lamb laid out to the wolves...
Some participants held hands during the meeting, which was the first gathering of the Transgender Task Force. The group was founded by Alex S. Myers '00, the transgender student who last year pushed the Undergraduate Council to add gender identity to its non-discrimination clause...
...There is enormous power to be claimed by residing in middle ground, in eschewing categorization," said Nancy Nangeroni, director of the International Foundation for Gender Education, to the students...
Last year, Nangeroni was influential in getting the Cambridge City Council to add gender identity to its non-discrimination clause...
Myers said the goals of the Transgender Task Force are to educate the student body about transgenderism and, eventually, to include gender-identity in the University's non-discrimination policy...