港大核心課程CCHU9007 Sexuality and Gender在日前(10月26日)舉行一項特別的學習活動,將香港大學百週年校園低層地下至三樓的大部分廁所改造成中性洗手間(gende-neutral/ unisex restroom),把門外女或男標誌改為中性符號,並貼上告示,鼓勵學生和教職員使用中性廁所,活動歷時一日。
課程統籌Professor Timothy O’Leary在課堂上指出,此舉正正挑戰大家日常去洗手間的習慣,讓大家重新思考平日如何按照生理性別在社會生活[1]。除此之外,課程講師Dr Brenda Alegre帶領修讀此課程的學生中性洗手間外,請同學邀請大家自由選擇廁所,探索性別操演和跨性別身份的教學內容。
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Professor Timothy O’Leary 在課堂上的一段發言: “Society has accustomed us to act in our own biological sex, to perform our gender unthinkingly. If gender is performed through unthinking repetition, the only way to challenge our normative gender identity is to think about it, to disrupt the ‘unthinking repetition’, by questioning “hang on a second,” which is what we’re doing with our gender-neutral toilet activity.” [2]
香港01:港大設「性別友善」廁所 跨性別人士:未公開的跨性別者難去用 https://goo.gl/o4Ati1 [3]
蘋果日報:台大搶頭香 首通過性別友善廁所設置辦法 https://goo.gl/qPBFVR [4]
CEDARS, HKU: First all-gender washrooms in HKU https://goo.gl/VklWIx