Trans at old Ivy.With Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities agreeing in May to add gender identity to its nondiscrimination policies, five of the eight Ivy League schools now protect transgender transgender or transgendered adj. Transsexual. students, staff, and faculty from discrimination. The move shows the school's "commitment to supporting the transgender and gender-variant members of our community," said Debbie Bazarsky, director of Princeton's LGBT LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center. The Ivy League is "a weather vane," added Riki Wilchins of Washington, D.C.'s GenderPAC. 'They are seen as the elite. If the Ivy League is doing this, then your local community college should be doing this too." Brown, the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. , Cornell, and Harvard also explicitly ban anti-trans discrimination. Columbia, Dartmouth, and Yale do not. |
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