Male, female or neither? Gender identity debated at same-sex colleges

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Male, female or neither? Gender identity debated at same-sex colleges
CNN
By Stephanie Chen
08 November, 2010


http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/11/08/single.sex.college.trangender.nongender/


Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- When Kevin Murphy entered as a freshman at Mount Holyoke, a Massachusetts women's college, in 2003, he was female. By the time he received his diploma, he was male.

Phillip Hudson, who attended Morehouse, an all-male historically black college in Georgia, calls himself androgynous, meaning he doesn't identify with masculine or feminine identity norms.

The two men represent a debate that is brewing at some of the nation's same-sex colleges. For these colleges, which have historically defied boundaries and challenged the status quo, a new test of tolerance has surfaced: How are they handling gender identity?