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Are GLBT Resource Centers enough to create inclusive campuses for Sex-Transitioning Students?

Are GLBT Resource Centers enough to create inclusive campuses for Sex-Transitioning Students?. Dustin Grabsch ‘10 NUFP Fellow Texas A&M University.

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Are GLBT Resource Centers enough to create inclusive campuses for Sex-Transitioning Students?

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  1. Are GLBT Resource Centers enough to create inclusive campuses for Sex-Transitioning Students? Dustin Grabsch ‘10 NUFP Fellow Texas A&M University

  2. Most institutions work on creating inclusive campuses for LGBT students; however, many never look at a holistic view as it relates to the growing needs of intersex, transgender and transexual students. This presentation examines areas of campus life where transgender students experience discrimination due to gender-exclusive policies and practices from a peer perspective. The specific obstacles faced by transgender students in a given area are discussed, followed by examples of how institutions are addressing these issues.

  3. Goals and Learning Outcomes After this presentation participants will be able to: • Explain basic transgender terminology, language and concepts. • Identify and explain differences between the three separate continuums of gender identity, sexual orientation and physical/biological sex. • Learn how to update current practices/ programs to be more inclusive of Transgender students. • Identity at least three barriers faced by transgender and gender non-conforming campus community members, and identity at least three solutions to improve inclusion and campus climate.

  4. Terminology • Sex • Sexual Orientation • Sexual Identity • Gender • Gender Identity • Gender Expression • Transgender • Transvestite • Transexual • Cross Dresser (ITPeople.org, 2006) (Adams, Bell & Griffin, 1997)

  5. Are LGBT Resource Centers Enough for transgender students? • GLBTQ2IA2P • Growing numbers of intersex students • As frequently as 1 in 200 births • As infrequently as 1 in 2000 births • Changing Trends in Transitioning Practices • Earlier Age • Technology • Exposure (Journal of Medical Humanities, 2004)

  6. Issues faced by Gender Diverse Students • Healthcare • Identifications • Housing • Mental Health • Restroom • Support (Language) • Discrimination

  7. Stages of Emergence • Awareness – First stage, gender diverse people are often in great distress. Therapeutic tasks – normalize • Seeking Information/Reaching Out –individuals seek to gain education and knowledge. Therapeutic tasks – provide linkage • Disclosure to Significant Others – “coming out” transgender. Therapeutic tasks – support transgender persons integration into the family system • Exploration: Identity and Self-Labeling – exploration of varies transgender identities. Support the articulation and comfort with identity. • Exploration: Transistion Issues/Body modification – options for transition regarding identity, presentation, and body modification. Tasks – resolution of decisions, advocacy for modification • Integration: Acceptance and post-transition issues – integration and synthesis identity. Task - support adaptation (Sheffield, 1999)

  8. Moving to Action • Student Initiatives • Student Senate Bill to update University and system discrimination Statements (failed) • Campus Programming (Transformers) • SWACURH Top 10 Program, NACURH Top 40 • Pushing to move to gender inclusive housing in new construction • Departmental Initiatives • Consideration of Gender Inclusive Housing • Diversity Programming (ERASE) • Push to update “ALLIES” Program

  9. Moving to Action (cont.) • Division of Student Affairs • Family Bathrooms • Creation of the GLBT Resource Center in 2008 • Adapting to YOUR Institution

  10. Contact Information • Questions? • Comments? • Concerns? • Discussion Dustin Grabsch ‘10 d.grabsch@tamu.edu Texas A&M University http://studentaffairs.tamu.edu

  11. References • Allen, Mariette Pathy. Transformations: crossdressers and those who love them. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, c1989. Notis akj7885 • Altman, Dennis. The Homosexualization of America, The Americanization of the Homosexual. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982. With dust jacket. • Brown, Geoff. I Want What I Want. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. With dust jacket. • Castle, Stephanie. Feelings: a transexual's explanation of a baffling condition. Vancouver, B.C.: Perception Press, 1992. • Cauldwell, David O., ed. Transvestism…Men in Female Dress. New York: Sexology Corp., 1956. • Chesser, Eustace. Strange Loves: The Human Aspects of Sexual Deviation. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971. • Chideckel, Maurice. Female Sex Perversion. New York: Eugenics, 1935. 3 copies: 1 with dust jacket. • Female Impersonators News 1-2, 42-43. Belmar, NJ, 1970 [?]. • Green, Richard. Sexual Identity Conflict. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1974. • Grossman, Paula. A handbook for transsexuals. Plainfield: Broadview Enterprises, Inc., 1979. • Hoyer, Niels ed. Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. London: Jarrolds, n.d. • Humphreys, Laud. Out of the Closets: The Sociology of Homosexual Liberation. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972. With dust jacket. • Jerslid, Jens. De Paedofile. Denmark: NYT Nordisk Forlag, 1964. Paperback.

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