EDITORIAL: Gender-blind housing needed

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Editorial | 3/4/08
Posted online at 1:43 AM EST on 3/4/08

All students deserve to feel safe and comfortable in their living environments. That's the message of the National Student Genderblind Campaign, a student movement that advocates for gender-neutral housing on college campuses. Institutions across the country, approximately 30, have responded to those students who say the traditional residence life policy that mandates only students of the same sex be roommates is antiquated and unfair. These universities have made gender-blind housing available to accommodate those students-many of whom are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or intersex-who feel more comfortable rooming with someone with no gender or someone of the opposite sex or gender.