Transgender Student Essay

This research examines the challenges of transgender students on college campuses. Once discovering the challenges of the transgender students on college campuses, I found Two theories, the University of Tennessee theory and “Dear Colleague” letter theory, helped me that would help me develop my own theory on accommodating transgender college students. I first had to clearly understand the term transgender and terms related to it; such as gender identity, sexual orientation, hormonal therapy, and gender reassignment. A significant finding of this study was the contradictory theories. The University of Tennessee theory contradict its self because they want to avoid offending transgender but using terms like “xe” and “ze,” instead of he and she, …show more content…
People with in this community have been discriminated in some way. Lately in mainstream media the transgender community has been getting a lot of ridicule. In order to understand the transgender community, I first needed a clear and concise definition of the term transgender. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), Transgender is an “umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at …show more content…
According to David Scott and Stephanie Belke, there are five main focus areas that counselors should focus on when working with transgender community. The first is to identify and assess unique challenges for both transgender students and counselor. Second, provide background information and working definitions from the transgender community. Third, discuss resources for counselors for career development with transgender students. Fourth, the counselor should consider the role of career development practitioners in the therapeutic relationship. Lastly, they should discuss limitations and suggestions for future