Harvard Law Students Protest Military Trans Ban During JAG Interviews

Even the dean thinks this violates the school's antidiscrimination policy.

onSeptember 14, 2017 at 2:14 PMSeptember 14, 2017 at 2:16 PM

We’ve had a dialogue with the school and said, ‘Listen, if you’re going to have an anti-discrimination policy in place, live up to it, or else don’t take the money, or do something else with the money.’ That’s the conversation we’re going to be having, but we’re today, right outside the interview rooms, just to kind of show a physical presence saying that we don’t agree with this policy.

— Han Park, co-President of Lambda, Harvard Law School’s BGLTQ student group, commenting on the reasons why the group led a protest alongside Queer/Trans People of Color earlier this week during JAG interviews on campus. Harvard Law accepts millions of dollars from the government each year, and in exchange, the school must allow the military to recruit on campus. In light of President Trump’s recent prohibition on transgender people serving in the military, students say military recruitment on campus violates the law school’s anti-discrimination policy. In an email to students, Dean John Manning said he “very much regret[s] this exception to our antidiscrimination policy.”

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