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Harvard’s lack of gender non-specific bathrooms has caused transgender and gender-variant students to alter eating and drinking habits and suffer severe cases of dehydration, according to a report released yesterday by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA).
BGLTSA Co-Chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05. who is also a Crimson editor, said that these recommendations are necessary to ensure the safety and rights of transgender members of the Harvard community.
“There are transgender students at Harvard,” Skier said. “It would be a much safer and more welcoming place for students, staff and faculty if bathrooms were accessible, gender non-specific and marked as such, and if people know they are not...
“There are basically no options in classroom buildings for transgender or gender variant people who need to use the bathroom,” said Jordan B. Woods ’06, the organizer of the study and BGLTSA political chair.
Jordan B. Woods ’06, political chair of the Bi Gay Lesbian Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), agrees that food can play an abnormal role in the lives of Harvard students. “It’s easy to really binge eat here,” he...