Transgender Dons: Navigating USF Outside of the Gender Binary

[SandraJane]

By Staff Writer: Lucas Waldron |  Posted on 03 December 2012


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The University of San Francisco is a pretty gay-friendly place. We have an active LGBT Caucus for faculty and staff, many openly queer professors, and a growing minor in gender and sexuality. What we don't have, unfortunately, is a community for transgender students or policies that address transgender issues. Don't get me wrong—many departments and individual staff members do great work accommodating trans students, but trans students at USF don't necessarily want to be a point of "accommodation." We would like to see the university's administration develop policies that directly address the struggles transgender students face at USF and remove the institutionalized discrimination that USF inadvertently engages in.