Harvard LGBTQ Group Demands More Gender-Neutral Bathrooms on Campus
“The group asks for two monthly stakeholder meetings to discuss the project’s progress, wanting it done by the end of the 2023 fall semester.”
Five years from now, when these students have moved on, another generation of students will decide that the school needs more gender-neutral bathrooms.
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard LGBTQ group calls for more gender-neutral bathrooms
The Harvard Undergraduate Queer Advocates, an LGBT student group at Harvard University, has started a petition seeking more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.
“The petition was kind of born out of a simple idea that folks deserve to have access to restrooms that they feel comfortable with and that they feel safe in,” Aaryan Rawal, co-president of the HUQA, told The Harvard Crimson, a student-run newspaper.
The paper uses the word “they” as Rawal’s pronoun.
The petition names seven academic buildings, “all first year residential halls that use hallway bathrooms,” and theater buildings as buildings that should have at least one gender-neutral bathroom but currently do not.
It also requests that gender-neutral bathroom access be expanded in all academic buildings, specifically the Barker Center, Lamont Library, and Science Center.
The group asks for two monthly stakeholder meetings to discuss the project’s progress, wanting it done by the end of the 2023 fall semester.
The HUQA justifies these requests in the petition by saying that “forcing” transgender or nonbinary students to use “gendered bathrooms can lead to significantly worse mental health outcomes and expose them to heightened rates of sexual harassment and gender policing.”
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Bathrooms are very expensive to build.
In a dorm setting, the most economical method to satisfy this demand is to create floors that 100% gender-neutral.
I suspect that this would be deemed unacceptable because “THEY” want everyone to endorse “THEIR” mental illness.
“In a dorm setting, the most economical method to satisfy this demand is to create floors that 100% gender-neutral.”
We solved this problem in an MIT dorm using a
… leftover tin fruitcake lid with a screw through the middle into the door. The inside was divided into five pie slices: MEN, WOMEN, EITHER, NEITHER, BOTH.
The only room we’ve identified that has any availability to an existing water stack is the west wall of the DEI Dean’s office.
Oh dear.
They already have “gender neutral” (as if the restroom would care) facilities. It’s called a stall.
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Gender-neutral facilities can be found on virtually every construction site. They’re portable, too.