The GSS Advisory Board, collectively and member by member, has spent significant time reading, pondering, and discussing the Gender Queer, Non-Binary, and Trans (GQNBT) Task Force Report published in September 2019, following a year-long, collaborative effort among Northwestern staff, faculty, and students. Before outlining concrete responses that GSS plans to pursue in 2020-21, we want to express our gratitude to GSS faculty and Advisory Board members Sekile Nzinga and Héctor Carrillo, who jointly led this Task Force, and to the many GSS-affiliated students, professors, and staff members who made this transformative project such a priority across the 2018-19 school year. In so doing, they modeled the kind of ethically guided, ambitiously scaled, community-wide push that is necessary to generate real coalition and to launch measurable, progressive change—both on the specific issues that this report addresses and on a wide range of other, urgent fronts that matter deeply to everyone in GSS.
GSS plans to work in sync with trans and gender non-conforming leaders, and with allies at all levels of the campus, to realize the recommendations and potentials of this Report and to honor the frank dialogues and inclusive process that produced it. This website represents GSS’s effort to aggregate campus resources of particular value to trans and gender non-conforming folks and groups, and of Evanston- and Chicago-area resources that exist in support of such people and movements.
History
In 2018, the University established the Gender Queer, Non-Binary and Trans (GQNBT) Task Force, which was co-sponsored by The Office of the Provost, Student Affairs, and Human Resources. The task force was charged to assess the current landscape at Northwestern to identify gaps in policies and resources, and to recommend gender inclusive strategies that will facilitate a more accessible, safer, and welcoming campus environment for trans and nonbinary students, faculty, and staff at Northwestern.
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