Huhs defines a new date for the LGBTQ health committee, which was postponed due to Trump orders

Harvard University's health services set a date for a virtual body for Harvard's LGBTQ health services -more than two weeks after the committee was postponed to transgender people due to the uncertainty in relation to President Donald Trump's executive commands.

The committee was originally planned for Friday, February 7, but was canceled a few hours before the planned start. No new date was set for the panel when it was originally moved. According to an e -mail on Friday, which was sent to students by the BGLTQ Student Life office, the committee will now take place on March 11th.

The Office of BGLTQ Student Life Director Meagan von Rohr, who was originally supposed to moderate the panel, will now moderate a short question and answer time after a presentation of the resources that Harvard partners provides.

The discussion participants include members of the LGBTQ care team, which includes nursing staff, doctors, registered nurses, licensed consultants for mental health and licensed independent clinical workers.

The shifted committee will also include the health services of Harvard University Patient Advocate Mallory Finn, the role of which the support of the patients includes the determination of financial support and the mediation of patient problems.

The rebuilding suggests that Harvard is currently not intended to retire language and programs that Trump pronounces quietly. Even if some universities scrubbed the language about diversity and gender identity from their websites, Harvard held his annual equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging forum last week. Top administrators have publicly defended the idea that diversity is the key to academic excellence.

Although the Ministry of Education from Trump has eliminated the protection of the federal title IX against sexual harassment based on gender identity, Harvard has retained an expansive policy of sexual misconduct that retains the protection of gender-specific identity.

But Harvard is not untouched by Trump's efforts to revoke the protection of the federal government for transgender people. The Department of Harvard Athletics has its transgender inclusion directive from its website after a Trump order to ban trans women from the women -college sport of women.

And the university FAces an ongoing lawsuit about his decision to enable a transgender swimmer at the swimming and diving championships 2022 in the Ivy League held in Harvard. The lawsuit was submitted shortly before Trump's new restrictions for trans women's athletes.

– Staff -writer Nirja J. Trivedi can be reached at nirja.trivedi@thecrimson.com.