- The “LGBTQIA+ Resource Center” at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst offers a variety of "transgender handouts" addressing issues such as "Gender-Normative Privilege" and "How Can Your Campus Be More Trans-Inclusive?"
- There is also a glossary of "Transgender Terminology" that defines terms such as “Cisgender Privilege,” “Two Spirit People,” “Genderqueer Individuals,” and “Gender Affirming Surgery.”
..."[The Stonewall Center] has served as a model for many other colleges and universities, and today more than 150 LGBT campus centers and offices exist across the United States and Canada."
A primer on Gender-Normative Privilege, for instance, provides a checklist students can use to identify “if I am gender normative (or, in some cases, simply perceived as gender normative).”
Some of the indications that one is gender normative include
- the ability to “purchase shoes that fit my gender expression without having to order them in special sizes or asking someone to custom-make them,”
- being able to use the showers at a gym or public pool, and
- not being “expected to constantly defend my medical decisions.”...
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