Transgendered Students Struggle To Fit In At College

At many of America’s first-tier women’s colleges, the growth of the trans community has led to campus workshops on transgender identity. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t sometimes a struggle to be trans or gender-nonconforming on campus. Many trans students feel themselves to be excluded or isolated at women’s schools and at coed colleges;147 colleges and universities nationwide now include “gender identity and expression” in their nondiscrimination policies. Many colleges now have Transgender Days of Remembrance in memory of victims of gender-identity-related hate crimes. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16students-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ei=5088&en=2736d75a704b5b31&ex=1363406400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss