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Title: Footnotes: what do other Ivies have to say about transgender issues?
Post by: Natasha on December 05, 2008, 06:04:34 PM
Footnotes: what do other Ivies have to say about transgender issues?

http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=6769 (http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=6769)
SHALA NAIMI
12/5/2008

Transgender topics are not exclusive to Yale, but have been on Ivy tables as early as the fall of 1982, when homophobic hate crimes peaked at UPenn.

If there's something the Ancient Eight do well, it's look to each other for cues on how to act, and addressing the transgender community is no exception. Harvard's Trans Task Force (HTTF) and UPenn's Transgender Task Force (PTTF) of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center have made great strides to improve the lives of transgender students.