College Reserves Transgender Student Dorm

Gay.com ^ | May 22, 2003 | 365Gay.com

[Mister Magoo]

College reserves transgender student dorm

by 365Gay.com

This fall Wesleyan University of Middletown, Conn., will become the first American college to offer transgender students specialized housing.

A number of universities already have gay and lesbian housing, but it is believed this is the first time transgender students will be given their own space.

Transgender students in the freshman class will have the option of living in the new "gender-blind" facility, one floor of a dormitory for students who don't want to be categorized as one gender or another.

The university has adopted a new mission statement that says freshmen who choose to live in the gender-blind area "will be assigned a roommate without the consideration of gender."

Mike Whaley, dean of student services, said the move came at the urging of students who feel the university needed to do more to accommodate the living needs of transgender students.

Whaley estimates there are 12 to 15 transgender students on campus. He said in the past some students who are transitioning have been placed with roommates that resulted in "uncomfortable situations" for the transgender student.

Capacity of the gender-blind hall was kept to 12 because there's no way to tell how many students are going to opt for it. Whaley said it would be expanded as the need arose.

Wesleyan has a reputation for liberal attitudes in both the way it treats its students and the courses it offers. It annually holds a gay prom, and its syllabus offers a course on pornography.

Posted May 22, 2003

[Mister Magoo]

Transgender: (sometimes shortened to trans or TG) people are those whose psychological self ("gender identity") differs from the social expectations for the physical sex they were born with.

[SamAdams76]

Now are they also going to provide separate dorm housing for boys who want to be girls and separate dorm space for girls who want to be boys? I don't think these two groups want to be mixed up. Or do they? What a complicated world this has become.

Remind me not to send my kids to any of these schools. I'm not having my tuition pay for any of this nonsense.

[Dan from Michigan]

It's Pat......

[anniegetyourgun]

Inatspecial. Wesleyan is, however, falling down on the job for having not provided for a species-blind dorm. One never knows when a great ape may score big on the SAT and gain entrance.

[mwyounce]

He said in the past some students who are transitioning have been placed with roommates that resulted in "uncomfortable situations" for the transgender student.

Think how the other roommate feels!

[Onelifetogive]

He said in the past some students who are transitioning have been placed with roommates that resulted in "uncomfortable situations" for the transgender student.

Yeah...and the poor roommate wasn't ever made to feel "uncomfortable."

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - What?!?!?!?!?!?

[mwyounce]

It annually holds a gay prom

Oh, and has someone called Bill O'Reilly? Shouldn't he be railing against the Governor of Connecticut to get involved with this?

[YoungHickey]

That's FÜçking discusting

[aiquile]

WARNING:
It's a political move!
What else?

[Rebelbase]

[Hobsonphile]

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[PeterPrinciple]

Let them live off campus.........way off campus.

[GovernmentShrinker]

And perhaps the following fall, they'll introduce a "new 'race-blind' facility for students who don't want to be categorized as one race or another." Sounds like the whole college is a "reality-blind" facility.

[PistolPaknMama]

Wonder if there's a dorm anywhere for heterosexuals who are saving themselves for marriage. Seems all the "lifestyles" are supported and encouraged except that one.

[Reagan79]

What would John Wesley think???

[Van Jenerette]

...maybe they ran out of closet space.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Remind me not to send my kids to any of these schools

There's always the University of Woomera. "Rule Number One - No Pooftahs!"

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[LurkedLongEnough]

Leftie campus administration gone-wild ping.