QuoteThe Yale College Council approved a resolution Sunday night calling on the administration to include the terms "gender identity" and "gender expression" in the University's official nondiscrimination policy.

Less than two weeks after Harvard University announced the addition of protection for "gender identity" -- though not "gender expression" -- to its own nondiscrimination policy, the YCC pushed for a similar action at Yale. Although some YCC members said they worried that the Yale resolution was not substantive enough to effect real change, supporters of the resolution -- which passed, 13-3 -- argue that it is needed to ensure that transgender members of the Yale community do not face harassment.

Quote54 Colleges and Universities and 2 Law Schools Have Non-Discrimination Policies that Include Gender Identity/Expression* (the year the policy change went into effect, if known, is in parentheses)

American University (2002)

Arizona State University (2004)

Brown University (2001-02)

California Institute of Technology (2004)

Carnegie Mellon University (2003)

Central College (2005)

Central Washington University (2005)

City College of San Francisco (2005)

City University of New York (2002-03)

Colby College (2005)

College of Santa Fe (2005)

Colorado State University (2004)

Community College of Rhode Island

Connecticut College (2005)

Cornell University (2005)

DePauw University (1999)

Drake University (2004)

Evergreen State College (2006)

Golden Gate University School of Law (2005)

Harvard University (2006)

Iowa State University (2005)

Johns Hopkins University (2005)

Kalamazoo College (2000)

Kalamazoo Valley Community College (2005)

Knox College (2001)

Lehigh University (2003)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003)

Middlebury College (2003)

New York University (2005)

North Carolina State University (2005)

Occidental College (2006)

Ohio State University (2004)

Oregon State University (2005)

Parkland College (2006)

Rhode Island College

Rochester Institute of Technology (2005)

Rockport College (2000)

Syracuse University (2005)

Tufts University (2005)

University of Arizona (2005)

University of California (2004)

University of Illinois (2005)

University of Iowa (1996)

University of New Hampshire (2005)

University of Oregon (2005)

University of Pennsylvania (2003)

University of Puget Sound (2002-03)

University of Rhode Island (2003-04)

University of Southern California (2004)

University of Vermont (2005)

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin (2005)

Vassar College (2006)

Wesleyan University (2002)

Western New England College School of Law (2005)

Whitman College

*Rutgers University and the University of Michigan state in footnotes to their policies that discrimination based on "sex" includes transgender people or gender identity/expression.