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not allow opposite sex roommates, though there are floors where sex alternates by room. There are some campuses in the US where students are petitioning to have "sex-blind" room assignments, but the deal would probably be that two students would have to request such an assignment and would not just be randomly placed with another of the opposite sex. Is everyone clear on that now?
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The article says: "The first gender-blind dorm in the United States opened in the fall of 2003 on the campus of
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Yes, it is exactly as you assume, only that a gender-blind dorm is not just open to "both sexes", but to "all genders" - and there are a few more than two, if one counts self-identification. I'd also not assume that things that are normal in
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Just wanted to let you all know, that pretty much all dorms in the USA are sex-segregated. It is extremely common-place for same-sex individuals to request rooms together and is often even encouraged. (So that one can room with a friend rather than a stranger.) On the other hand, most campuses do
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any mention of gender. It's sort of like a "don't ask, don't care" policy. :) It just completely removes all the gender-based questions. They simply don't ask. So, while unisex means that it applies to or is used by both males and females, gender-blind means they don't know who uses it and it
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Yes, I know of course, there are differences. What I meant: Does the statement, that the first "gender-blind dorm" opened as late as in 2003 imply that the norm in the US still is to seperate dorms by gender, like, one building/floor for men, one for women? And would a homosexual student have
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Seriously, I can't tell you all that much about the US campuses, being German myself, but I am under the impression that most housing is "sex-segregated". How much trouble two persons of the same sex would get asking for a room together probably depends on the university; opposite-sex (or
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the norm, and I would have expected this to be the same in the US. So, could somebody please explain? (I assume that a "dorm" in the US use is not (as in
British English) a hall with meny beds, but a house with many single or double rooms. Is that correct?)
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seems to me like it is part of the wider number of topics to do with not defining people by their sexual organs.. and maybe "Gender blind" is more specifically referring to an individual who identifies with this perspective?
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