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 bathroomsThe 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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