Word: genderism
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Priscilla D. Taft ’38, a doctor who lectured at Harvard Medical School despite being turned down for admission into its program as a Radcliffe undergraduate because of her gender, died Nov. 23 at Berkshire Medical Center...
...that spirit, the group is aiming to add a clause protecting “gender identity and expression” to Harvard’s non-discrimination policy. Such a move to revise non-discrimination policy was attempted in 1997 by transgendered student Alex S. Myers ’00, but was unsuccessful...
...obliterate their victims, perhaps in an attempt to erase them completely, by any means necessary.” The Day of Remembrance denies murderers the prerogative to erase their victims, and also resists more subtle forms of erasure. Insensitive news media frequently trivialize victims’ gender identification by using victims’ “birth pronouns” and by describing transgendered people as almost delusional, convinced they are something which they manifestly are not. The Day of Remembrance allows us to publicly testify to the gender identities of these victims—not in ironic, pathologizing...
Let’s start at the beginning. When we talk about transgendered people, we mean those individuals who do not identify and perform as “man” or “woman” in accordance with a binary system that prescribes gender expression solely on the basis of one’s genitalia. This includes, but is not limited to, transsexuals (pre, post, and non-operative), transvestites, persons with ambiguous genitalia, and persons who have chosen to perform ambiguous social genders. Today marks the fourth annual observance of the National Transgender Day of Awareness...
...reminds us not to be complacent. Yes, the cities of Cambridge and Boston have transgender nondiscrimination policies written into the law books. Ostensibly, Harvard students live in a metropolitan area that is aware of transgender issues and supportive of transgender communities. Yet, our own university does not include gender identity in the list of categories against which it is committed not to discriminate. And the most recent act of anti-transgender violence picked up by national media took place on October 3 in Newark, Calif., just a half-hour drive from San Francisco, the birthplace of the Day of Remembrance...