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...Undergraduate Council approved contentious bills recommending gender-neutral restrooms and a campus women’s center in a three-and-a-half hour meeting last night, which ended only when security guards evicted the council from the Sever Hall classroom where it meets...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Pushes Restroom Access | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...evening’s most heated debate concerned a resolution sponsored by council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Andrew C. Stillman ’06 in support of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus. Jordan B. Woods ’06, political chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), spoke to the council in favor of the bill, which urges Harvard to remove male or female designations from all single-occupancy bathrooms...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Pushes Restroom Access | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

Joseph R. Oliveri ’05 proposed striking from the resolution a clause that called for the College to explicitly grant transgender and gender-variant people the right to use any restroom they deem appropriate...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Pushes Restroom Access | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...this particular case, BGLTSA co-chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05 has decided to liken the battle for gender non-specific washrooms to the much more significant fight for handicap-accessible bathrooms. Her comparison of the plight of a transsexual person to the plight of a paraplegic is not only absurd but also highly offensive to both the disabled and transsexuals alike. Suggesting that the discomfort felt by a transsexual choosing whether to enter a door marked with a stick figure in a skirt or pants is comparable to that suffered by someone who does not have...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla and Alex B. Turnbull, S | Title: Stalling Progress | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

BGLTSA’s bathroom proposal is not innately silly. (As we have mentioned, single-stall bathrooms sans gender specification is helpful to all who need to relieve themselves). But the general demeanor of BGLTSA and its politics certainly is, and it does nothing to help gay people on this campus. If BGLTSA wants to achieve things that ensure that people are treated justly, it should engage in debates and show critics the alleged error of their...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla and Alex B. Turnbull, S | Title: Stalling Progress | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

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