Wallace: NU’s housing policy pushes transgender students off-campus

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Wallace: NU's housing policy pushes transgender students off-campus
North By Northwestern
April 22, 2009


http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2009/04/35186/wallace-nus-housing-policy-pushes-transgender-students-off-campus/


To The Editors:

I am writing with regard to Mugsie Pike's recent editorial about housing options for gender-variant students. I am a transsexual student who lives off-campus. I'm not trying to give anyone a sob story here, but I left high school at age 17 unwilling to even consider returning to school again. One of the most squarely unappealing things to me about seeking higher education was dealing with the issue of gender-segregated housing, as well as gendered bathrooms and the regular gender discrimination and harassment that I receive as an out transsexual.