Post by Logan on Apr 17, 2016 7:02:16 GMT -6
Jesse Howie, a UNC Charlotte junior, is an articulate, involved student with a silver nose ring and hair color that’s apt to change from week to week. Howie, whose birth certificate says female, is also a transgender student who declines to be identified as male or female, preferring the gender-neutral pronoun “they.”
Few people would call UNCC a radical hotbed. It’s no Berkeley or Oberlin, not as liberal as Chapel Hill. But Howie, who grew up in Charlotte, has found the school supportive of LGBT students. “I have never felt discriminated against for being trans,” Howie says.
While North Carolina’s House Bill 2 puts new restrictions on transgender people, requiring them to use public restrooms matching the sex on their birth certificates, an opposite trend flourishes on many college campuses: They’re broadening support for students like Howie.
On a growing number of U.S. campuses, including UNCC, students can indicate their gender identity by choosing a preferred pronoun. Many campuses, including Duke University and Davidson, Guilford and Warren Wilson colleges, offer gender-neutral bathrooms and gender-neutral housing, where students of different genders can room together.
Read more: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article72096322.html
Few people would call UNCC a radical hotbed. It’s no Berkeley or Oberlin, not as liberal as Chapel Hill. But Howie, who grew up in Charlotte, has found the school supportive of LGBT students. “I have never felt discriminated against for being trans,” Howie says.
While North Carolina’s House Bill 2 puts new restrictions on transgender people, requiring them to use public restrooms matching the sex on their birth certificates, an opposite trend flourishes on many college campuses: They’re broadening support for students like Howie.
On a growing number of U.S. campuses, including UNCC, students can indicate their gender identity by choosing a preferred pronoun. Many campuses, including Duke University and Davidson, Guilford and Warren Wilson colleges, offer gender-neutral bathrooms and gender-neutral housing, where students of different genders can room together.
Read more: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article72096322.html