Word: transgenderism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proponents of an Undergraduate Council (UC) resolution calling both for Harvard's non-discrimination policy and for the UC's constitution to be amended to include transgendered persons cannot declare victory yet. Those who support the resolution will have significant bureaucratic obstacles to overcome before transgenderism is accepted as official Harvard University policy; our administration, despite its liberal leanings, will hopefully find the transgender resolution to be misguided...
There is an element of mordant irony about the liberal transgenderism resolution in that it may be the secret weapon to achieving the fairness and quality which Harvard conservatives seek. (By "fairness" and "equality," I mean equal opportunity in the unadulterated sense of the term--no special preferences for anyone, for any reason.) The first time a Radcliffe organization receives a scholarship application from someone who is a biological male but who considers himself to be a female, the conservative fight for equality will have been won. Radcliffe will finally be called upon to reconsider its exclusively female career, scholarship...
That summer Myers heard the word "transgender" and met people who had "transitioned" for the first time.
The council is in the process of voting on whether or not to include transgender people as a protected category under the non-discrimination clause of its constitution.
The current University policy does not account for the transgendered in its protection against sex and sexual-orientation discrimination. This is because the term transgender reflects a self which is a product of an individual's conception--not one based on chromosomal make-up (sex) or one forged against the...