Word: neutrality
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gender. According to the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, over 50 colleges implemented gender neutral housing policies as of July...
...Harvard’s unorthodox housing process made policy development particularly tricky. Other colleges, such as Dartmouth and Brown, have designated gender neutral floors or suites across campus that students can lottery into. But Assistant Dean of Residential Life Joshua G. McIntosh, who headed the ORL’s efforts, was intent on preserving Harvard’s signature random house assignment. “One’s house affiliation should not be associated with your gender or your transition from one gender to another,” he explains...
...McIntosh reports that two gender neutral housing requests were made to his office this fall, and more were made directly to house administrators...
...McIntosh makes clear that the ORL gender neutral policy only guarantees mixed-gender housing to students who identify as transgender or gender questioning. But many more requests for mixed-gender housing are made at the house level by both gay and straight students...
...Quincy resident Kevin J. Davies ’10 had to jump through “bureaucratic hoops” to be able to live with his female blockmates his sophomore year. He finds fault with the current gender neutral housing policy. “I think it’s wrong to assume that you must be questioning your gender in order to prefer living with men or women, or for that preference to be okay only in the case of being transgender,” he says. “[The policy] should definitely be more inclusive...