Colleges hospitable to trans boy/man

[Anonymous]

What would they be? Youth is not especially political, just wants to live his life, as a boy/man. He’s artistic and creative but not eccentric.

[Anonymous]

Wesleyan, Vassar, oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Pitt, bowdoin, bates

[Anonymous]

Lewis & Clark
Reed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan, Vassar, oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Pitt, bowdoin, bates

? Bowdoin and Bates are just preppy liberal rural arts schools, Bowdoin being a lot more elite.

[Anonymous]

Chatham University (Pittsburgh)

[Anonymous]

VCU arts

[Anonymous]

We are in a similar stand considering the state policy as well as the college. So Oberlin would be out because Ohio has passed so many bigoted laws.

[Anonymous]

William and Mary

[Anonymous]

PP above- OP, I truly hope DC finds a school that fits them. Honestly, I don’t think that will be very difficult.

[Anonymous]

We recently took a tour of the University of Pittsburgh and they told us on the tour that there is a gender neutral dorm. We’ve been to about 10 large schools and that is the first who has pointed that out in a tour. They were not originally on our list, but this definitely definitely added a plus in that column for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP above- OP, I truly hope DC finds a school that fits them. Honestly, I don’t think that will be very difficult.

Please stop speaking on this topic since you don’t have a child in this situation.

[Anonymous]

I had a close friend at Northwestern who was trans and while I'm sure he had to deal with some crap, it wasn't so bad I ever heard about it and he did really well at the engineering school.

[Anonymous]

Radford has a very engaged LGBTQ community. In fact there is a large community in the Roanoke Valley, which surprised me. My friends, trans son is currently going there and has become very engaged in the community.

[Anonymous]

Muhlenberg talked about flexibility in bathroom and living arrangements in a way that suggested they have experience With trans kids. Lots of theatre and dance majors so an accepting environment.

[Anonymous]

There are some pretty good suggestions already listed - I just want to throw out there that you should make sure any college your son ends up selecting has good academic supports.

There is a strong correlation between autism/being on the spectrum/adhd/anxiety, etc. with trans boys so you want to make sure those aspects are also covered in college with good supports.