For smart people, they sure are dumb

Me thinks they've lost their damn mind at Harvard.  This was part of the initial press statement at The Harvard Crimson:

Harvard has appointed Vanidy “Van” Bailey as the College’s first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. Bailey, the assistant director for education at the University of California, San Diego, will assume the new position on July 16.

This statement was then corrected by authors on July 3.  This is the money shot:

An earlier version of this article used the pronoun "she" to refer to Vanidy "Van" Bailey, the newly appointed director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. In fact, Bailey prefers not to be referred to by any gendered pronoun.

Read that again.  This was actually written.  By people who purport to be much smarter than myself.

Heh...