Collegian.PSU.edu – By Katy Hopkins For The Collegian
Beginning college is a tough transition for any student, made doubly hard for those simultaneously going through a gender identity crisis, a university analyst said yesterday.
Sue Rankin, senior diversity planning analyst in the office of the vice provost for educational equity, spoke energetically yesterday to about 20 people in Pattee Library’s Foster Auditorium about her recent survey on transgender individuals and how it is pertinent to a college community.
The online survey was voluntary for the 3,474 who participated and classify themselves as transgender. Rankin and her colleague, Brett Genny Beemyn, compiled their results from the survey.
The number of volunteers was “a whole heck of a lot more people than we expected,” Rankin said. “This is the largest study of trans-people that we know of anywhere that has been done, and that is pretty cool.”