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Title: Fisher:Stanford safeguards transgender students
Post by: LostInTime on September 05, 2007, 08:23:04 AM
The Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/pattyfisher/ci_6804801)
By Patty Fisher
Mercury News

After years of debate and months of discussion, Stanford has become one of California's first private universities to add transgender students to the groups covered by its anti-discrimination policy.

That puts Stanford University on a par with all the Ivy League schools, which forbid discrimination based on "gender identity," along with race, sex, religion, disability and sexual orientation, among other traits.