Natalie Meier – Transgendered Visibility on a Single-Sex Campus
For an institution that identifies as a “women’s college” and produces “strong women” of all different shapes, races, creeds, and sexual orientations, there is a group that hasn’t been receiving the support it needs or deserves: transgendered individuals.
The demographic of identities present on women’s college campuses is vast, to say the least.
But picture this for a moment…
Imagine for a moment that you were born into the wrong body. Imagine that your birth certificate, your driver’s license, and even your school ID card tell you that you are a female when, in fact, you know that you’re male. Imagine that you come to a women’s college, thinking that you will be able to find a community of other students to support you, the resources about hormone therapy or top surgery that you’ve been looking for, and an avenue to a kind of freedom of expression that you don’t feel comfortable with anywhere else.
Imagine all of these things, and then learn that there are, in fact, little to no resources for transgendered students