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...delay a vote while other council members frantically called student group leaders to attend the council meeting. By the time they had exhausted parliamentary procedure, UC members had successfully courted several members of the Black Students Association and Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance Co-Chair Ryan R. Thoreson ’07 to lobby against the legislation. Both student groups have said they do not support granting UC funding to student groups that discriminate in their membership. Former UC Vice President Clay T. Capp ’06 also showed up in the middle of the meeting...
...terms of numbers, Harvard’s transgender population is small compared to the size of the entire community. This detracts, however, from neither the symbolic value of the statement nor the real impact it will have on those directly affected by the new policy. According to Ryan A. Thoreson ’07, co-chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transsgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and a member of the TTF, prevailing societal opinions now make publicly indentifying as transgender extremely difficult. “The change in code signals a willingness on the part of Harvard...
...Discrimination of housing, bathroom use, locker rooms, any gender space is a reality for many transgender students,” said Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) co-chair, Ryan A. Thoreson ’07, who is also a member of TTF. “The non-discrimination code goes about a way of addressing that kind of discrimination and violence on campus...
...protection does not allow transgendered students to emerge and begin to challenge the culture of discrimination.“That you can be fired or not admitted to Harvard for not performing according to your gender identity is kind of jarring to a lot of people,” Thoreson says. “You wouldn’t think that’s fair grounds for dismissing or denying someone fair housing, but technically it still is.”According to activists, the issue is bigger than it seems. The nondiscrimination code doesn’t only affect...
...government ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men. The ban, implemented in 1990, is a policy imposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “I think the decision from the Red Cross is long overdue,” Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, one of the BGLTSA co-chairs, wrote in an e-mail. BGLTSA co-chair Mischa A. Feldstein ’07 said the current restriction is “a needlessly stigmatizing ban that doesn’t make sense.” Thoreson criticized...