Changes to LGBTQ+ identity labels over time

Proposal for Gender Neutral Housing

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Proposal for Gender Neutral Housing

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A proposal to change to/include gender neutral housing at the University of Michigan, put together by the Spectrum Center student advisory board. Includes various backing documents, including names of other colleges with gender neutral housing implemented and student quotes in support of the change.

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Year
Introduced

Residents
Qualified to Live
in GN Housing
Trans-identified

Room Type

Case by case

Roommate
Preference or
Lottery
Roommate
Preference

Michigan State University

2009

University of Chicago

2009

Upper-class, to
first years on an
individual basis

Upper-class Housing

Standard Lottery

2004,
expanded
in 2008

Upper-class
students

Upper-class suites
and apartments

No Lottery – only
Roommate
Request

2008

Trans-identified

Upper-class doubles
(part of pilot
program)
Suites

N/A

2008

Upper-class

Residence Hall and
Apartments

Lottery or request
a roommate

Source: www.housing.uchicago.edu

Brown University

Source: Brown University Daily Herald, Mar. 20, 2008

Harvard University
Source: The Harvard Crimson, Feb. 8, 2006, March 17, 2006, Feb. 16 &
23, 2007

Stanford University
Source: Stanford Report, Apr. 2008

Data taken from www.genderblind.org - updated Summer 2008, Accessed on March 27th, 2009
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Pilot Program

Carnegie Mellon University

2007

Upper-class male
and female [sic]

Set of apartments
reserved

No Lottery – only
for people who
know each other

2007

Any
undergraduate or
graduate

Apartments and
Suites

Lottery or request
a roommate

2004

Upper-class

One floor - Suites

2006

Currently fighting
for freshman to be
able to choose GN
Housing
Upper-class
Any Hall

No Lottery – only
for people who
know each other

Source: The Tartan Student Newspaper, Mar. 5, 2007

Dartmouth College
Source: http://www.dartmouth.edu/home/campus_life/housng.html

Wesleyan University

Source:http://www.wesleyan.edu/wsa/transgender/genderneutral.html

University of Pennsylvania

No Lottery – only
for people who
know each other

Source: www.business-services.upenn.edu/housing/GNAgreement.pdf

Oberlin College

2004

Upper-class, or
First Years if they
request it

Multiple Room
Types

No Lottery – only
for people who
know each other

2004

Any student

One specific hall

Lottery or request
a roommate

Source: The Oberlin Review, May 12, 2006

University of California – Riverside
Source: http://out.ucr.edu/campus/gnhousing.htm

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Data taken from www.genderblind.org - updated Summer 2008, Accessed on March 27th, 2009
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Spectrum Center

Media

Gender_Neutral_Housing_Proposal.pdf