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C'Ville Correspondent Concerned about the Can

C'Ville writes:

"Oh, those Cantabridgians! I had no idea that the designation of men's and
women's bathrooms had anything at all to do with sexuality. I thought it
was about what sex you are. Or something like that. Again, I am a dumb
ol' boy from the south, so I am certain I don't appreciate the subtleties
of this. At least at Yale we just had co-ed bathrooms, so anybody of any
gender (or variant thereof) had no choice in the matter, at least in the
college."

Gender Variance Student government leaders at Harvard University want the university to remove male-female designations from restrooms in order to make them more inclusive toward students whose sexuality may be ambiguous, reports the Harvard Crimson . The president of the Undergraduate Council, Matthew W. Mahan, sponsored the bill, which urges Harvard to remove male or female designations from all single-occupancy bathrooms. The bill passed by a 32-3 vote, but only after heated debate. Joseph R. Oliveri contested the language of the original bill, which called for a clause explicitly granting transgender and gender-variant people the right to use any restroom they deem appropriate. "The 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.

Now C'Ville must remember that we had gender-neutral multiple occupancy bathrooms in the Annex at our Yale dorm. Now that was embarassing.

Posted by marc at May 22, 2004, 08:16 AM
 
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