We get tossed around like a hot potato, no one know what to
do with us, whether it is DCF or a college trying to figure out what dorm we
belong in.
New York TimesBy JOSHUA HUNT and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAJULY 24, 2014NEWBERG, Ore. — A growing number of openly transgender students have forced schools around the country to address questions so basic that they were rarely asked just a few years ago, much less answered: What defines a person’s gender, and who gets to decide?A small Quaker college here, George Fox University, has become the latest front in this fight, refusing to recognize as male a student who was born anatomically female. The student calls himself a man, and as of April 11, when a state circuit court legally changed his sex, the State of Oregon agrees.But George Fox University sees him as a woman, and it prohibits unwed students from living with anyone of the opposite sex. So when the student asked to live next year with a group of male friends, the university turned him down. Instead, it offered him a single-person apartment on campus, or off-campus housing.The dispute has drawn attention from two departments of the federal government. It has already broken new legal ground, and it might do so again soon, according to experts on gender identity issues.
The answer is so simple, put us with the gender that we
identify with. He is a man. The students where he wants to stay don’t have a problem
with him living there, why should the college?
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