Word: variants
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Joseph R. Oliveri ’05 proposed striking from the resolution a clause that called for the College to explicitly grant transgender and gender-variant people the right to use any restroom they deem appropriate...
...proponents of the bill have not been able to give a concrete definition of who is gender variant,” Oliveri said, adding that the new bill would allow anyone—himself included—to enter a women’s bathroom. “We’re reducing ourselves to the political arm of the BGLTSA...
...It’s not as if there’s going to be a rush of Joe Oliveri’s running into the bathroom,” Anello said. “If somebody really is gender-variant the burden should be on the school to say they?...
This year, the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) conducted a College-wide study of bathrooms. During the next few weeks, the BGLTSA will screen “Toilet Training,” a documentary video that uses personal accounts of transgender and gender-variant people to show the harassment that people face in segregated bathrooms. The BGLTSA has also located 38 campus bathrooms that do not specify gender, and has posted their locations on the BGLTSA website (www.hcs.harvard.edu/~queer).
There are many areas of campus that do not offer people the option of using gender-non-specific or single-stall bathrooms. Most classroom buildings have not a single gender-non-specific bathroom, forcing many of Harvard’s transgender and gender-variant students either to enter a bathroom that does not correspond with their gender identity or expression, risk violence or arrest or avoid using bathrooms during the day. For instance, if someone is not immediately perceived as female in a women’s bathroom, people may scream “there?...