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While Sensing also agrees that transgender should not be classified as a disorder, he says that having access to the coverage is more important than the terminology used to describe it.
While Sensing says he will tolerate the “disorder” classification since it allows for medical treatment, he says he hopes that this is not a label transgender people will have to carry forever.
Sensing, as well as many other members of the transgender community, are counting on education to spread awareness of transgender issues.
Eva B. Rosenberg ’10, chair of Harvard Transgender Task Force, agrees that the lack of visibility can lead to unintentional discrimination, not only in the search for medical treatment, but also in day-to-day issues such as checking a male/female box on a form, changing one?...
“Many individuals and offices across the university are open to transgender issues and learning more about what they can do,” Rosenberg says. “But maybe some employers don’t think they have any trans employees or don’t...