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...designed with at least one gender-neutral bathroom. The change will likely not affect the vast majority of Harvard students, but that does not mean it’s not one worth making. While the difference would be minor to most, the comfort conferred to transgender or gender-variant students and faculty could be great...
Surveying the school’s bathrooms, the BGLTSA attempted to raise campus awareness of the embarrassment, harassment and potential health issues of transgender or gender-variant students who lack the option of gender-non-specific bathrooms. According to the group’s recently released report, “Besides reinforcing gender norms, bathrooms that are clearly marked as male/female force many individuals to enter bathroom environments that they consider uncomfortable and unsafe.” The simple step of remarking bathrooms as gender-neutral would greatly alleviate this discomfort—not to mention open up more bathroom...
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?...