RPS includes transgender students

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RPS includes transgender students

By Makenzie Holland | IDS
POSTED AT 11:25 PM ON Jan. 18, 2012

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=84955

Ethan Jackson is a 19-year-old freshman and a direct admit to the Kelley School of Business. He is from Bluffton, a small town in northern Indiana, where he has lived his whole life.

Ethan Jackson is also a transgender male, a distinction that the University attempts to honor through its housing assignments.

Born female, Jackson decided to transition last summer after a trip to New Zealand, where he lived with relatives. He had not decided anything previously, but the trip to New Zealand helped him make his decision to change, Jackson said.