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Understand the needs and experiences of incoming transgender students
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
campus security report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6247
pISSN - 1551-2800
DOI - 10.1002/casr.30305
Subject(s) - transgender , social connectedness , institution , psychology , identity (music) , gender identity , medical education , sociology , social psychology , medicine , social science , psychoanalysis , acoustics , physics
SAN FRANCISCO — What is the experience of incoming freshman transgender students, both in and outside the classroom at your institution? What challenges have they already faced, and what do they fear about the reality of life at your institution? At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Ellen Stolzenberg, assistant director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, shared statistics comparing the emotional well‐being, financial concerns, and connectedness of incoming transgender and incoming cisgender (those whose gender identity matches the sex they were identified as having at birth) freshman students.