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Lavender Housing Research Paper

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A current issue that that has affected higher education is lavender housing for first year students. This topics has affected higher education, because a lot of students and professionals are not trans-knowledgeable, and they don’t understand bigendered, cross living, gender binary system, and dominate culture. In the state of North Carolina there are only a few schools with lavender housing, Guilford College, Warren Wilson College, and recently Duke University. Even though, these schools offer lavender housing, they are still segregating members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Asexual or Ally (LGBTQA) community.

Guilford College, and Warren Wilson College offer lavender housing, but it is only available …show more content…

When I President of the Residence Hall Association at North Carolina Central University, there was a student that was transitioning from a male to a female that identified as, she. She felt that she could use the restrooms on the female floor. This was an issue because she was still identified as, he, on her driver’s license. She approached me and said “Can you help me I feel, hated, mistreated, alone, and scared”, the only thing I could tell her was, “ I can see if we have space available for a single room with a restroom included”. That hurt me because I was in this leadership position, representing residence life, and we didn’t even have a gender-neutral restroom for a soon to be transgender to take a shower in peacefully. Unfortunately, that student moved off campus, and had to pay a housing termination fee, and that was one less student in a room. I want to be that young student affairs professional that anybody can talk to; I also want to make sure we have facilities on campus that cater to the LGBTQ community. If there isn’t a lavender housing LLC on campus, lets start one. We can start by putting adapting a lavender housing floor LLC, then moving towards a lavender building that provides knowledge about the LGBTQA culture, and people who have contributed to the

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