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Transgender student fights denial of housing at SUU
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I am troubled by how classist the Univeristy's position is. Gender reassignment surgery is an incredibly expensive procedure�prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of transgendered people. SUU apparently expects a person in Mr Osborn's position (in his twenties without a college education) to have somehow amassed the necessary resources to meet their requirements. Those who come from all but the highest classes of our society will never be able to do so. SUU's policy establishes a barrier to on-campus housing that is effectively impossible for the vast majority of transgendered students to meet.
Men get raped too. Putting male genitals on Kourt will not magically make him safe from an unaccepting mob of men. And I would invite you and all those who think Kourt should just get the surgery to take a look at some "post operative" pictures for female-to-male patients. Apart from the cost, the surgery results in more of a mutilation than a phallus.
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Uh, wrong. Lots of Universities and institutions of higher learning have co-ed dorms. THAT is a fact. Your opinion wasn't scientific.
However, I would never call you a bigot. You and I just see things differently.