Yale University
Private College in Connecticut
Widespread
About Yale University
Yale University is a private college located in Connecticut. Visit the college website: Yale University
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- Provides comprehensive "gender-affirming care" covered by student insurance.
- Including the Exploring Gender group therapy and a Gender Affirming Closet.
- Offers gender-inclusive housing in Yale College with shared mixed-gender bathrooms in most areas.
- While requests for single-gender bathrooms can be made during the Intent phase of Room Draw.
- "supports LGBTQ students" through the LGBTQ Center and the Trans@Yale club which features an extensive online "survival guide" and hosts weekly meetings and organizes monthly lunches and events.
- Maintains all-gender bathrooms across campus in compliance with NCAA sports policies and allows preferred names to be updated via a self-service portal.
Trans Activism:
Widespread
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I’m an alumnus from the ’90s, and I remember when Yale’s LGB group added the “T” in ’95–’96. LGB(T) activism was vocal and prominent even then… they would chant “one in four, maybe more” (gay at Yale; wrong, of course, at least back then). But it’s worth emphasizing that Yale has also long had a very pro-social culture that is prone to activism, groupthink and culty behavior. And there are always wealthy alums who dump money on their pet causes. A big part of the attraction of Yale, and its cultural power, is in alumni connections. There is an informal and widely-subscribed alumni Facebook group that bleeds rainbow every June (the banner is currently a stylized “progress pride” thing, with a picture of Handsome Dan the bulldog mascot wearing a “progress pride” flag). The longtime group admin is big on pride posts. And there is no separation between LGB and T in the minds of most alumni, as far as I can tell. Speaking up is likely to generate more heat than light in that group. But anyways, gender ideology goes back further and deeper here than it does in most places, I think. I went to a Harvard-Yale football game sometime around maybe 2010? and there were women invading the men’s restrooms at the football field. Some of the urinals were old fashioned trench stalls. Not a trans thing, but a culture of transgression that is intricately linked to TQ+ culture and ideology. This problem goes deeper than what’s good for the students. These are future heads of Goldman Sachs, governors, Supreme Court justices. ~ Student (Current Student)
When our son entered Yale he was an active young man who took no prescription medication. He sought help from Yale Health for difficulty sleeping. Yale Health put him on Seroquel, an antipsychotic drug that has serious side effects. In the weeks following the prescription for Seroquel, our son returned to Yale Health and obtained a prescription for estrogen. When we picked up our son at the end of the semester he seemed robotic and disengaged. He disclosed that he had been taking estrogen for two weeks. These life-altering interventions were initiated by Yale Health with no parental involvement. ~ Parent