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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.
Maybe this woman should consider going to a school who has co-ed dorms or find of campus housing, that would probably be easier and alot less stress and mental anguish. Schools who aren't co-ed I think are perfectly within their rights to keep the males and females seperate in their housing.
Here's what SUU should have done: "You're medically female, so you won't be permitted to live in male housing. Would you be willing to live in female housing?"
If her answer is yes, assign a room. If it's no, thank her for her time.
Poor little person who decided to be different. Well, I hate to tell you, some people live off campus because they are married. Does that mean SUU has to build dorms for married people. Does that mean that married people should sue cause they can't live in the dorms. NO! The university has facilities built as a convenience to those that follow specific guidelines, they don't have to give you what ever you want, they are providing a service, you can go live elsewhere if you don't like it.
Boo Hoo
Mr. Osborn was denied ANY housing at SUU. Unless he spends 100,000 dollars and goes through painful surgery, he was told he cannot live in either the MALE or FEMALE dorms. This is a public university paid for by ALL of the people for the benefit of ALL the people (not just for people who hate Gay people).
Again, I hope Utah has to pay Lambda Legal millions in legal fees when they lose this one.
Rikki
What about hermaphrodites? Explain that one.
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