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Male, female or neither? Gender identity debated at same-sex colleges
When Kevin Murphy entered as a freshman at Mount Holyoke, a Massachusetts women's college, in 2003, he was female. By the time he received his diploma, he was male.
Phillip Hudson, who attended Morehouse, an all-male historically black college in Georgia, calls himself androgynous, meaning he doesn't identify with masculine or feminine identity norms.
The two men represent a debate that is brewing at some of the nation's same-sex colleges. For these colleges, which have historically defied boundaries and challenged the status quo, a new test of tolerance has surfaced: How are they handling gender identity?
Defining gender on same-sex campuses has become murky as some students say they fall outside the conventional male-female gender binary. More schools are encountering complicated cases where not all students at men's colleges identify as male and not all students at women's colleges identify as female.
The diversity of gender expression comes in many forms, from individuals who consider themselves androgynous or nongender-conforming to students who are transgender or in the process of changing their sex. Transgender people are often defined as those who do not identify with the gender they were at birth.
Read the whole article here.
Some of the comments were awesome, and some of them made my blood pressure rise. And rise, and rise and rise.
Oh! And another article that's making my blood pressure rise again. (Can y'all tell I'm reading CNN.com?)
Catholics split over church's campaign against same-sex marriage - I particularly enjoyed the following paragraph:
"[Marriage] is the natural way we bring together men and women to conceive and raise the next generation," he said, speaking directly to the camera. "What will happen to children growing up in a world where the law teaches them that moms and dads are interchangeable?"
I kind of want to smack the Bishop. Hard. Not all men and women who get married want or have children; gays and lesbians getting married isn't going to STOP the heterosexual couples from having children if they want to, and shouldn't children grow up in a world where they're loved and learn to love, regardless of things like gender, sexual orientation, religion, race and so on? Jesus.
When Kevin Murphy entered as a freshman at Mount Holyoke, a Massachusetts women's college, in 2003, he was female. By the time he received his diploma, he was male.
Phillip Hudson, who attended Morehouse, an all-male historically black college in Georgia, calls himself androgynous, meaning he doesn't identify with masculine or feminine identity norms.
The two men represent a debate that is brewing at some of the nation's same-sex colleges. For these colleges, which have historically defied boundaries and challenged the status quo, a new test of tolerance has surfaced: How are they handling gender identity?
Defining gender on same-sex campuses has become murky as some students say they fall outside the conventional male-female gender binary. More schools are encountering complicated cases where not all students at men's colleges identify as male and not all students at women's colleges identify as female.
The diversity of gender expression comes in many forms, from individuals who consider themselves androgynous or nongender-conforming to students who are transgender or in the process of changing their sex. Transgender people are often defined as those who do not identify with the gender they were at birth.
Read the whole article here.
Some of the comments were awesome, and some of them made my blood pressure rise. And rise, and rise and rise.
Oh! And another article that's making my blood pressure rise again. (Can y'all tell I'm reading CNN.com?)
Catholics split over church's campaign against same-sex marriage - I particularly enjoyed the following paragraph:
"[Marriage] is the natural way we bring together men and women to conceive and raise the next generation," he said, speaking directly to the camera. "What will happen to children growing up in a world where the law teaches them that moms and dads are interchangeable?"
I kind of want to smack the Bishop. Hard. Not all men and women who get married want or have children; gays and lesbians getting married isn't going to STOP the heterosexual couples from having children if they want to, and shouldn't children grow up in a world where they're loved and learn to love, regardless of things like gender, sexual orientation, religion, race and so on? Jesus.
