Harvard University Health Services has set a date for a virtual panel on Harvard’s LGBTQ health care services – more than two weeks after the panel postponed due to the uncertainty around the executive orders of President Donald Trump targeting transgender people.
The panel was initially scheduled for Friday, February 7, but was canceled a few hours before its scheduled departure. No new date has been set for the panel when it was initially postponed. The panel should now take place on March 11, according to a Friday email sent to students by the BGLTQ student life office.
The director of student life of the BGLTQ office, Meagan von Rohr, who was initially put to moderate the panel, will now moderate a brief period of questions and answers following a presentation on the resources available for the affiliates of Harvard.
The panelists will include members of the LGBTQ care team, which includes nurses, doctors, authorized nurses, approved mental health advisers and independent clinical social workers.
The reprogrammed panel will also include patient defender from Harvard University health services, Mallory Finne, whose role includes helping patients identify financial assistance and patient concerns.
The reprogramming suggests that Harvard does not currently intend to quietly withdraw the language and the programs to which Trump is opposed. Even if some universities rub the language on the diversity and gender identity of their websites, Harvard held its annual capital for forum, diversity, inclusion and membership Last week. The best administrators have publicly defended The idea that diversity is the key to academic excellence.
Although Trump’s Ministry of Education has removed federal protections from title IX against sexual harassment based on gender identity, Harvard maintains A larger sexual misconduct policy that retains protections based on gender identity.
But Harvard did not emerge not affected by Trump’s efforts to revoke federal protections for transgender people. Harvard’s athletics department removed its transgender inclusion policy From his website following a Trump order prohibiting trans women from female university sports.
And the university FAs a current trial During his decision to allow a transgender swimmer to participate in the Ivy League 2022 swimming and diving championships, held in Harvard. The trial was tabled shortly before Trump’s new restrictions on trans women’s athletes.
—Trocci nirja J. Trivedi can be reached at nirja.trivedi@thecrimson.com.