It’s hard to be a “progressive” these days. Or perhaps to know what is “progressive.”
For example, progressives oppose neutrality with regard to race. Indeed, many view the effort to return to the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s requirement of colorblind equality as a racist plot. On the other hand, they support “gender neutrality.”
A new Genius Index (Gender Equality National Index for Universities and Schools) produced by the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, and discussed in this article today in InsideHigherEd, discussed the dramatic progress of “the gender-neutral movement” on college campuses.
Examples of this success:
•141 colleges and universities have created some gender neutral bathrooms, frequently private bathrooms that students can use without fear of being judged as being in the wrong bathroom based on the way others view the students’ identity.
•30 colleges and universities have created options for gender-neutral housing, in which the norm for roommates is not presumed to be someone of the same sex.
Treating people without regard to race or ethnicity? BAD. Treating people without regard to sex, gender, or sexual or gender persuasion? GOOD.
Brittney Hoffman, youth coordinator for the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, said that the report’s emphasis reflected a range of goals. Inclusion in anti-bias rules is an essential “top level” policy, while gender-neutral bathrooms and dormitories are what students want to improve “the day to day lived experiences on campus.”
I would imagine that some difficulties might pop up as university administrators strive to implement policies that are conscious of color, i.e., that bestow burdens and benefits based on race and ethnicity, while striving at the same time to remain unconscious of sex/gender/sexual persuasion. How, for example, should they regard, say, a Puerto Rican cross-dressing transvestite?
Maybe half-consciously.
“…private bathrooms that students can use without fear of being judged as being in the wrong bathroom…”
Just hold it in, if you really sweat bullets over this.
So since such clebrated genius scholars have ‘discovered’ that gender is socially constructed, perhaps the need to use those facilites is even more socially constructed. Since gender is socially constructed how come we can’t socially deconstruct the wombs of the impoverished and leftist, and eliminate their social-imaginary female reproductive potential, because we have successfully socaikly constructed a gender reality in which that would be oppression? Now I wonder if some people would not see why I would conclude that the age of the government school as such, soon needs to brought to a close here, or in a place which values freedom-from-aggression, reason and progress of civilization towards objectively measurable improvements.