How to Make Your Office and Institution More Transgender Friendly
College and University › Vol. 84 Nbr. 4, April 2009
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[...] it is important to review some basic definitions. Because safety can be an issue, the transgender student can assist in explaining his/her situation to potential roommates in order to find an appropriate match.
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How to Make Your Office and Institution More Transgender Friendly
More and more often, our campuses are taking an active role in making gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (g lb t) students feel welcome. This has taken a number of forms, from non-discriminatory policies with inclusive language to participation in G lb T college fairs and scholarship programs for G lb T students. The pitfall into which many of us have fallen is grouping the G lb T community into one diversity category but concentrating only on the GLB portion and forgetting about transgender students. As more and more students identify themselves to us as transgender, it is important for us to be prepared at a minimum and, at best, to make them feel as welcome as any other student population.
First, it is important to review some basic definitions. 'Transgender' is a broad term that covers a variety of ways in which people express t...See the full content of this document
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