{"id":28625,"date":"2015-06-18T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=28625"},"modified":"2015-06-18T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T02:49:52","slug":"wasedas-lgbt-center-winner-of-presidents-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/28625","title":{"rendered":"Waseda&#8217;s LGBT Center &#8211; winner of President&#8217;s Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Diversity Waseda<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Satoko Itsumura<br \/>\nFifth-year, School of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Sho Watanabe<br \/>\nFourth-year, School of International Liberal Studies<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel uncomfortable going through physical examinations where examinees are separated based on their biological gender.\u201d \u201cProfessors and classmates hurt me with their discriminatory remarks.\u201d A student group, \u201cDiversity Waseda,\u201d heard such anguished voices of LGBT students and proposed \u00a0Waseda University build an LGBT student center to help these students enjoy campus life without adversity and discrimination. In March, this student group won the President\u2019s Award in the third \u201cWaseda Vision 150 Student Competition,\u201d which is the ultimate award in the final round of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that our team managed to get an overwhelming number of votes among the final eight participants made me extremely happy and makes me feel that we were able to convey our message to the audience.\u201d says Itsumura. \u201cWe \u00a0worked with faculty who raise questions regarding gender and sexuality and used their insight to take action. \u00a0The university was also open to our concerns. We feel lucky to be in an environment where the university and students can mutually engage with one another,\u201d says Watanabe.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them regard the award as a starting point rather than an end goal. \u201cWe will mobilize interested students to make our proposal a reality.\u201d (Watanabe) \u201cWe want LGBT students to know that many members of Waseda University are willing to come together to discuss issues.\u2019\u201d (Itsumura) They are already moving forward toward a new goal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28629\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28629  \" alt=\"1368_P8\u3074\u30fc\u3077\u308b_\u30c0\u30a4\u30d0\u30fc\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u65e9\u7a32\u7530_\u30b5\u30d6\u30ab\u30c3\u30c8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/06\/190d1a29af8d87e306bdf08e2107d5f2.jpg\" width=\"775\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/06\/190d1a29af8d87e306bdf08e2107d5f2.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/06\/190d1a29af8d87e306bdf08e2107d5f2-610x472.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Itsumura and Watanabe pictured with university President Kamata after winning the President&#8217;s Award at the Waseda Vision 150 Student Competition<\/p><\/div>\n<p>*LGBT is acronym \u00a0for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In Japan, the term is interchangeably used with homosexual females and males, and bisexual individuals in reference to anyone who pursues a life not necessarily in conformity with their legally or socially assigned gender at the time of birth. They are considered \u201csexual minority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity Waseda Satoko Itsumura Fifth-year, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Sho Watanabe Fourth-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-28625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-students-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29283,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625\/revisions\/29283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}