Word: nangeroni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Nangeroni, executive director of the International Foundation for Gender Education, admits that she doesn't have all the answers...
...Nangeroni advocates allowing students to decide for themselves which housing is appropriate for them...
...although Nangeroni says the issue of athletic teams is more difficult, she adds that there are places where transgendered people are participating on teams based on their self-determined gender...