The Common Application Isn't Gonna Ask Prospective College Students If They're Gay
http://www.queerty.com/the-common-application-isnt-gonna-ask-prospective-college-students-if-theyre-gay-20110126/ (http://www.queerty.com/the-common-application-isnt-gonna-ask-prospective-college-students-if-theyre-gay-20110126/)
From gender neutral housing to setting up GSAs, queer college students have a lot on their minds. One thing they won't have to do before setting foot on campus? Wonder whether they should answer the Common Application's questions about their sexual orientation and gender identity. A push to add those checkboxes to the application — which is used by more than 400 schools in the U.S. — has failed.
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As for your trans status?
On the issue of gender identity, the rejected proposal would have continued to ask students to report their legally defined gender, but would have also given applicants the chance to indicate if other terms more accurately described them, so that students who identify as a different gender than is on their birth certificates, or who identify as transgender or without a traditional gender, could indicate as much.