Transgender student visibility has Missouri and Kansas colleges making accommoda

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Transgender student visibility has Missouri and Kansas colleges making accommodations

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article24052645.html

The Kansas City Star
By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS

Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover kick-started a national conversation about what defines gender and what that means.

Yet college campuses have buzzed with conversations about transgender issues, unisex bathrooms and the rest for years.

That talk yielded changes, with more in the works, both big and small.

Barnard College, a private school in New York City, this spring became the seventh elite women's college to admit applicants who self-identify as women regardless of their sex at birth. Stephens College, an all-women school in Columbia, has talked about a similar move for nearly a year and expects to decide before January.

At public colleges in the Kansas City area, unisex bathrooms and gender-neutral dorms have opened up. Wording in some anti-discrimination policies has been tweaked to protect transgender students.

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Here's an interesting way of getting hormones and SRS paid for - go back to college. Many student policies now cover transgender care, not to mention accomodations for trans -students being made.