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Title: Alumna reflects on transgender equality
Post by: Shana A on March 29, 2012, 09:09:55 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 29, 2012, 09:09:55 AM
Alumna reflects on transgender equality
By Jaclyn Saumell
Collegian Staff Writer
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/03/29/transgender_psu_grad_speaks_about_what_it_takes_.aspx (http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/03/29/transgender_psu_grad_speaks_about_what_it_takes_.aspx)
Mara Keisling, a Penn State Alumna, returned to Penn State, this time to talk about her experiences in a once intolerant university, transgender equality and political activism Wednesday night.
Keisling, class of 1988, is a transgender-identified woman and the founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C.
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When describing her experiences growing up and her freshman year at Penn State in 1977.
"I didn't actually believe transgender people existed," Keisling said. "I thought I was the only one in the world. "
She later noted Penn State as having a direct relationship to her position to go into politics.
By Jaclyn Saumell
Collegian Staff Writer
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/03/29/transgender_psu_grad_speaks_about_what_it_takes_.aspx (http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/03/29/transgender_psu_grad_speaks_about_what_it_takes_.aspx)
Mara Keisling, a Penn State Alumna, returned to Penn State, this time to talk about her experiences in a once intolerant university, transgender equality and political activism Wednesday night.
Keisling, class of 1988, is a transgender-identified woman and the founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C.
[...]
When describing her experiences growing up and her freshman year at Penn State in 1977.
"I didn't actually believe transgender people existed," Keisling said. "I thought I was the only one in the world. "
She later noted Penn State as having a direct relationship to her position to go into politics.