EAST LANSING– The Michigan State University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to add gender identity to the university's antidiscrimination policy.
The adoption completes a policy change process started by the student governance body of MSU, The Associates Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU), in 2002. In 2003, the Board voted to include gender identity in part of the policy which prohibited harassment, but not in the nondiscrimination clause itself.
Jordan Furrow, a transgender activist and student at MSU, told the Board before the vote that supporting this policy change was important. "Discrimination breeds harassment. I will I may not be harassed at MSU, if I worked here I could be fired," he told the Board
