{"id":6420,"date":"2019-02-19T10:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:22:32","slug":"why-isnt-gender-identity-on-bcs-notice-of-non-discrimination-does-bc-not-care-about-its-trans-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/02\/19\/why-isnt-gender-identity-on-bcs-notice-of-non-discrimination-does-bc-not-care-about-its-trans-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t gender identity on BC&#8217;s notice of non-discrimination? Does BC not care about its trans students?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021919-2.jpg\" alt=\"why isn't gender identity on BC's notice of non-discrimination? Does BC not care about its trans students?\" class=\"wp-image-6415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021919-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021919-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021919-2-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021919-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>why isn&#8217;t gender identity on BC&#8217;s notice of non-discrimination? Does BC not care about its trans students?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BC&#8217;s position, as communicated to the staff LGBT@BC group in 2017, is that gender identity, protected by Massachusetts law, is included in the notice&#8217;s reference &#8220;&#8230; and to comply with state law prohibiting discrimination&#8230;&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-nondiscrimination\">bit.ly\/BC-nondiscrimination<\/a>). Chris Polt, an assistant professor in Classics, studied statements at other Jesuit institutions. Perhaps GLC or another student LGBTQ group could contact Chris for his findings and ask for further clarification from the BC administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC&#8217;s position, as communicated to the staff LGBT@BC group in 2017, is that gender identity, protected by Massachusetts law, is included in the notice&#8217;s reference &#8220;&#8230; and to comply with state law prohibiting discrimination&#8230;&#8221; (bit.ly\/BC-nondiscrimination). Chris Polt, an assistant professor in Classics, studied statements at other Jesuit institutions. Perhaps GLC or another student LGBTQ group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/02\/19\/why-isnt-gender-identity-on-bcs-notice-of-non-discrimination-does-bc-not-care-about-its-trans-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t gender identity on BC&#8217;s notice of non-discrimination? Does BC not care about its trans students?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[487],"class_list":["post-6420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}