ABSTRACT
The examples are many:
A college student gets called “fag” and “queer” because he looks effeminate.
A campus climate assessment survey asks respondents to rate the environment in the classroom for people of “both genders.”
A diversity training session acknowledges the different genders of participants by asking the women and then the men to stand.
A college admission form asks applicants to check a box marked “M” or “F.”
A transgender student avoids using certain rest rooms on campus because of hostile comments about his gender.
A student is afraid that he will not be hired in his profession after graduation if faculty members discover that he has transitioned from female to male.
A transsexual graduate student wonders how she can change her student records to reflect her gender identity and how she will be received by the students she will be teaching.
