“The BGLTSA would not support that,” Barusch said. “Right now we are just dealing with single-stall bathrooms.”

While the BGLTSA officers admitted that the number of students who require gender non-specific bathrooms is relatively small, they stressed the fact that basic civil rights are at stake.

“Even if it is a small number of people that this affects, it is important to recognize that this is something that is central to these peoples’ daily lives,” Woods said.

Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 agreed with Woods’ statement.

“When something has to do with fundamental rights and needs, it doesn’t really matter how many people it affects,” Mahan said. “I don’t think I would be representing the student body if I wasn’t interested in the issue.”

The BGLTSA has submitted a position paper to the council, and hopes to receive the council’s endorsement. Mahan said the paper will go before the council’s student affairs committee next week.

BGLTSA members will also seek the support of House Masters in creating at least one gender non-specific bathroom in each house.

Skier said that she does not believe costs are a major obstacle to the BGLTSA’s goals.

“People made the same argument about putting in wheelchair ramps,” Skier said. “We are asking for some simple, low-cost mechanisms that will help students now.”

Skier said that much of the opposition to gender non-specific bathrooms is a result of bigotry.

“I think that most objections to this very reasonable modest proposal are blatant transphobia,” Skier said. “Saying that people don’t deserve to go to the bathroom which is a basic student life or workplace issue is equivalent to saying that transgender people shouldn’t be at Harvard and that is just wrong.”