Binary gender at Harvard

Since at least 2015, Harvard students have had a full menu of gender ID options available to them (“Harvard allows students to pick new gender pronouns” (Boston Globe)). Yet recently I had to fill out a form from the Harvard IT department and the choice was stark: “Male” or “Female”.

[Separately, Harvard uses the same term for someone who is going to be on campus temporarily as the FBI uses for a wide range of suspected criminals: “Person of Interest“.]

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4 thoughts on “Binary gender at Harvard

  1. If you have a dick you are male. If you have a pussy you are female. If you have a dick but thinks you are female or vice versa you are not right in the head. It’s as simple as that. Gender is biological not something you identify with and its time we stop catering to every ridiculous deviancy and every deviant demand.

    Being a human that identifies as a dog not make you a dog. Being a pig that identifies as a human does not give you human rights. If you don’t like such realities, well tough shit! If you have a dick and wants join the girls’ wrestling team or use the women’s shower, you need to go pound sand.

    President Trump should tweet that, or better yet, say it during the State of the Union, while taking a confrontational and unyielding stance against these advocates of rubbish calling for nonsense. Maybe he can start with… “The State of the Union is STRONG, but there are many who are trying to fuck it up…”

    It wouldn’t hurt him one bit. The nut case left that subscribes to such bullshit would never vote for the guy anyway. Not the rest of us, it’ll be a big HELL YEAH!

  2. What if you have, to use your terminology, a dick and a pussy? Or neither? What if you have a dick and ovaries or a pussy and a Y chromosome? Sex really isn’t that simple. Google “intersex” for some of the many strictly biological variations that exist. Gender, which brings psychology into play, is even more complex. I’m a conservative, not a member of the “nut case left.” I’m a fan of strong gender roles. I believe it means something to be a man or a woman. And I’m opposed to people who want to wipe out or downplay the idea of gender altogether. But I recognize there has to be room for variation and complexity.

  3. I don’t see gender. Or race. My workplace is full of shaded beige/brown blobs.

  4. I recently learned that my University refers to potential students, while in the pre-prospect state, as “Suspects” in their Salesforce tracking system. We suggested that “Person-of-Interest” might be a better name.

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