Barnard looks to address transgender, gender non-conforming students

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Barnard looks to address transgender, gender non-conforming students

"I think that Barnard is still struggling to grasp what it means to be a women's college when gender is more complicated than just men and women," Avi Edelman, CC '11 and president of EAAH, said.

By Katie Bentivoglio

Published April 7, 2011

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/04/07/barnard-looks-address-transgender-gender-non-conforming-students

When Rey Grosz, GS, entered Barnard College as a first-year in 2007, he was already taking male pronouns and planning to begin transitioning from female to male.

Although he had decided to attend a women's college, Grosz knew several transmen who had graduated from Barnard and assumed everything would be fine.

But midway through orientation week, there were already problems.