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ASUA voiced support of gender-inclusive housing on Wednesday night.

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate approved Sen. Scott Rising’s resolution in favor of a pilot program to add a proposed 25 spots in gender-inclusive housing as well as a LGBTQ-themed wing at its 5 p.m. weekly meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center.

“This is an issue that is not just a housing issue. This is an issue that I think is really a campus-wide issue,” said Jim Van Arsdel, director of UA Residence Life, “and the thoughtful consideration of a group like this is really important in that whole process.”

“Really nothing has to change besides the occupants of the room,” Rising said at the Oct. 20 forum on gender-inclusive housing, where a 30-person group unanimously supported the idea of gender-inclusive housing, akin to other living-learning communities in UA Residence Life.

Gender-inclusive housing would include both biological sex and the gender with which people identify.”Part of the issue is that our current residence hall system is based on a binary gender system that only recognizes male and female,” said Jennifer Hoefle, program director of LGBTQ Affairs. “But bodies and identities don’t only fall into those two categories.”

Read the full story at the Arizona Daily Wildcat.

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