Student Housing will expand its gender-neutral housing program to Bob, Branner Hall, Crothers, Yost and all graduate residences next year, according to an informational email by Charles Syms ’11 M.A. ’11, who spearheads the student side of the program. It will further expand the program as more buildings are renovated so that they “are suitable for gender-inclusive housing,” he said.

Syms noted that students had been working with Housing to clarify the housing assignment process for transgender or “genderqueer” students, adding that if students were worried about being assigned housing by the gender listed in the registrar’s database, they could speak to a housing specialist who could work with them to assure that their housing needs would be met, keeping in mind their gender identity.

Syms said Housing is changing the name of the housing type from “Gender-neutral Housing” to “Gender-inclusive Housing” based on student input and will refer to it exclusively as the latter after next year.

–Tyler Brown