{"id":73999,"date":"2018-12-17T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=73999"},"modified":"2018-12-17T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:08:50","slug":"chicagos-undergraduate-transgender-students-face-disparate-housing-accommodations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicagos-undergraduate-transgender-students-face-disparate-housing-accommodations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s undergraduate transgender students face disparate housing accommodations"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Katie Rice<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer, an upper-level student at DePaul University in Chicago, has lived on campus for her entire university career. She was fairly happy with housing on campus until a minor change in her academic record nearly forced her to move dorm rooms.<\/p>\n

Jennifer, who is using a pseudonym to protect her identity, is a transgender woman. Though she\u2019s been out to family and close friends for a couple years, she started medically transitioning four months ago. Recently, to mark another milestone in her transition, she decided to change her preferred gender in the university\u2019s academic portal \u2014 used to access information such as tuition, classes and grades \u2014 to female. A few weeks later, she got an email from the housing department saying the university would have to move her to a room with a female roommate.<\/p>\n

This email came while Jennifer was busy preparing for an end-of-semester project and exam crunch at DePaul, so she wouldn\u2019t have had time to move even if she could have. Besides, moving to a room with a roommate who identified as female since birth presented other issues.
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\u201cWhere I was confused was, I\u2019m still of male sex currently,\u201d she said. \u201cI am not legally a different sex, so there really should not be a problem,” she said. “If you were to move me into female housing when I\u2019m still legally a male, that could open up problems for DePaul and for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

This bad experience with the housing department happened around the same time news broke of the Trump administration\u2019s effort to reclassify gender<\/a> as the sex one is assigned at birth. For a couple of weeks, these events caused Jennifer gender dysphoria<\/a>, a form of intense distress in the conflict between her gender identity and the way others saw her. Not only was the federal government trying to erase her identity, she said, but she felt her university was too.<\/p>\n

\"Arch\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Jennifer, a transgender woman, attends DePaul University. Though she enjoys her major, she wishes the university were more accommodating to transgender students, especially with regard to on campus housing options and gender-neutral restrooms (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"DePaul\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
DePaul is the largest Catholic University in the United States. The school\u2019s website says its namesake, Saint Vincent de Paul, believed in \u201cVincentian personalism,\u201d a belief in dignity for all people, and that de Paul worked toward helping marginalized communities. Jennifer said the school\u2019s incorporation of de Paul\u2019s mission of compassion is somewhat flawed. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like, in theory this is what the school stands for, but there\u2019s still a lot of issues putting them in practice\u201d (Katie Rice\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Campus\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Jennifer is from Michigan, and she said the community back home is less accepting of LGBTQA people than the Chicago community. \u201cIn Chicago, at least, it\u2019s a little easier to actually find an LGBTQ group. Where I was from, we had one gay bar. That\u2019s it\u201d (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Coffee\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\u201cI\u2019ve always felt kind of different. Like I do have a little bit of that cliche where I did kind of know [I was transgender] when I was young, but it wasn\u2019t like I had the vocabulary for it. It was just like, something just didn\u2019t feel right.\u201d It was only once transgender women, like Caitlyn Jenner, became more visible in the media that Jennifer was able to put a name to her identity (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Hoodie\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\u201cThe whole persona I had for years was so not feminine,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that traditional story that always gets reported in the media, \u2018Oh, that 5-year-old boy who played with Barbies and was always bullied for playing with the girls in school.\u2019 \u2026 There were no supposed \u2018signs\u2019 when I was younger. [My parents] have been supportive, but when I came out they were like, \u2018What?\u2019 They were really, really shocked. \u2026 It\u2019s like \u2014 no, I\u2019m literally not the person you\u2019ve known my whole life. That\u2019s a whole different ball game” (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Estradiol\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Jennifer has been transitioning for three years. She started medically transitioning recently, and has been on HRT \u2014 hormone replacement therapy \u2014 for about four months. She takes a combination of estradiol (estrogen) and spironolactone daily (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Pill\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Jennifer\u2019s family has been supportive of her transitioning thus far, including helping her start hormones. But Jennifer is still hesitant to share certain aspects of her transition with them yet. For instance, they still call her by her legal (male) name and don\u2019t know she goes by her preferred (female) name with friends \u2014 hence her pseudonym for this article. Her transition journey is gradual, and she is sharing aspects of her transition with her family at a pace comfortable to her (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Fan\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\u201cI\u2019m four months on hormones. I\u2019m kind of waiting [to tell my parents my preferred name] a little more until, like, I actually look more like my name, let\u2019s say,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I actually start going through the process of changing my driver\u2019s license, and my birth certificate, all that, then that\u2019s probably when I\u2019ll have that conversation with them\u201d (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Drag\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
While in Chicago, Jennifer has been enjoying going out with friends. She especially enjoys hanging out in spaces that celebrate gender and sexuality, like drag shows. She\u2019s pictured here at a drag show in downtown Chicago (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Train\"<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Though she feels accepted by her immediate family, Jennifer is anticipating conflict when she decides to come out to members of her extended family. \u201cI kind of feel like at least one side of my family is going to be really, really hurt and I\u2019ve sort of come to terms with that,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like when you know someone who is dying and you kind of make peace with it before they actually die. It\u2019s almost like I\u2019ve made peace with that so when I do eventually tell them, if everything goes to s–t I\u2019m kind of like at a point where I can back away from this very easily\u201d (Katie Rice\/MEDILL).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n

A 2017 study found the number of transgender people in the United States is increasing.<\/a> It estimated the number of transgender people at almost a million, or about one in every 250 Americans, with the data potentially being more representative of the young adult population. Another survey from 2017 estimates that people between ages 18 and 24 comprise 13 percent of the transgender population in the U.S.<\/a>, and that there are roughly 150,000 transgender youth aged 13 to 17 in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the increased visibility of adolescent and college-aged transgender Americans, universities find themselves at a pivotal moment with the opportunity to revise university policies<\/a> to be more inclusive and welcoming of transgender and LGBTQA students on campus. In the Chicago area, some campuses \u2014 including Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago \u2014 have adopted gender-inclusive housing options that take the forms of double- or single-occupancy dorm rooms.<\/p>\n

As many universities have housing requirements that mandate students live on campus for at least their first year, housing policies without provisions expressly including transgender students have left many of these students uncertain about seeking accommodations in residence halls and uncomfortable with the roommate assignment process.<\/p>\n

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In Jennifer\u2019s case, she was unaware that DePaul\u2019s academic portal communicated with the university\u2019s housing portal with regard to gender.<\/p>\n

In her experience at DePaul, housing assignments have been based on a student’s legal sex, as disclosed to the university in identification documents provided during student enrollment. Jennifer said first-year students are required to live on campus, but other students have the option to move off campus. She has always lived either by herself or with roommates who were assigned male at birth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the issue is a conflation of the terms, where they\u2019re not separating the idea of gender and sex,\u201d Jennifer said. \u201cThey say \u2018gender,\u2019 but they really mean whatever your legal sex is. Which is common.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about university housing policies accommodating transgender students, Carol Hughes, the executive director of news and integrated content at DePaul University\u2019s Office of Public Relations and Communications, referred to a statement on the housing department\u2019s website<\/a> under \u201cIdentity and Special Considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement reads that the Department of Housing and Student Centers \u201cwill consistently recognize and respect the gender identity that students self-identify to DePaul, in good-faith.\u201d It provides that students can self-identify if they want \u201cspecial housing considerations regarding their gender identity\u201d and won\u2019t be expected to provide \u201cmore information than that which is required of other students\u201d in order to do so.<\/p>\n

The statement does not elaborate on what \u201cspecial housing considerations\u201d entails.<\/p>\n

At Northwestern University, a private university in Evanston, students have the option to live in Gender Open Housing<\/a>, which according to Northwestern\u2019s Residential Services is intended to \u201ctake into consideration varying identities and preferences, and to ensure a safe and comfortable environment for all students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gender Open Housing \u201callow[s] any two friends to live together, regardless of sex, gender, and gender identity\u201d and is based upon a student\u2019s preferred gender identity or expression as indicated by the student on their housing application. Residential Services states that unless students self-select to live in Gender Open Housing, students will be placed to room with a student of the same gender identification.<\/p>\n

Three dorms<\/a> on Northwestern\u2019s campus were designated as having gender-open housing options for the 2018-2019 school year. Students at Northwestern are required to live on campus for their first two years, a new policy that took effect this year for the class of 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n

Though Gender Open Housing is intended to accommodate students of all gender identities on campus, some students have reported issues with their housing assignments through the program.<\/p>\n

Ezra Okeson, a sophomore and a transgender man, said he applied for Gender Open Housing as an incoming first-year student after he saw a statement that trans students could room with people of their gender identity. When he started filling out the housing form, he said he found his gender was locked into the system as female, his assigned sex at birth, and he couldn\u2019t change it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no other way to indicate that my gender identity was different,\u201d he said. \u201cThey took that information from the Common App, [but] the Common App itself asks for both my assigned sex and my gender, and [the housing form] took my sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okeson, who was also featured in a video by the Daily Northwestern <\/a>about on campus housing for transgender students, got in touch with someone in the housing department, pointing out that he felt the housing policy didn\u2019t accommodate transgender students, and he said he was told that housing would accommodate his request to room with a male-identifying student.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything was fine and dandy until I got my housing assignment,\u201d he said. \u201cI found that I was in a \u2018dingle.\u2019 They assigned me, straight off the bat, to a \u2018dingle\u2019 \u2014 a double single.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had been assigned to a double room in Lincoln, a suite-style dorm, by himself \u2014 without roommates or suitemates. He and his mother called the housing department and learned that his assigned room was designated as a Gender Open room but the school hadn’t advertised it as a Gender Open Housing option, so nobody applied to live there.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly then did they tell me they couldn\u2019t \u2014 by whatever university policy \u2014 they couldn\u2019t assign me to the room of [someone with] a different legal sex,\u201d he said, despite the Gender Open Housing policy.<\/p>\n

All of this happened before Okeson started school. Before he moved in, he was moved around to several different rooms and ended up living in a single in a women\u2019s suite. He had asked to live in a suite with other male students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really sucked coming in very disappointed by what the administration said they were going to do and what they did,\u201d he said. \u201cI have noticed that the university only allows gender open housing in places where you will not be in a room with somebody else, like you cannot have a roommate of a different legal sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Okeson said Gender Open Housing is only available in dorms that have single rooms. This year, he decided to live in a single room, as he said he\u2019s come to appreciate living alone. Next year he plans to live off campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir idea of Gender Open Housing, I feel like, is very superficial \u2026 because gender-nonconforming students, by their rules, cannot have a roommate, which really sucks if you wanted a roommate, like I did,\u201d he said. \u201c[As an] incoming freshman, I didn\u2019t know anybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a suitemate, they can be of other genders, but your room is just one legal sex,\u201d he continued. \u201cPersonally, I think the way they should do it is just get rid of that whole Gender Open Housing thing and just have options on the housing form that say like, \u2018What\u2019s your legal sex? What\u2019s your identified gender?\u2019 And, \u2018Are you comfortable with rooming with somebody of another gender?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark D\u2019Arienzo, the senior associate director of Residential Services at Northwestern, was unable to schedule an interview before deadline given other departmental commitments.<\/p>\n

Not everyone at Northwestern takes advantage of Gender Open Housing. Chase Stokes, a sophomore and a transgender man, said he looked into Gender Open Housing as a first-year student, but he couldn\u2019t find a detailed explanation of it and said it didn\u2019t seem right for him. He joined a Facebook page for female students looking for roommates within the class of 2021, identifying himself as a transgender man, and ended up finding and living with a female student.<\/p>\n

This year, he\u2019s living in a fraternity house with a male roommate. Living in university-affiliated Greek houses fulfills the sophomore on-campus living requirement, but he said his decision to live outside a residence hall isn\u2019t related to housing concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t actually face a whole lot of issues with housing,\u201d Stokes said. \u201cMy roommate and I got along very well and nobody really thought twice about us living together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless, Stokes said he would like to see changes in the way Northwestern approaches Gender Open Housing, especially because single rooms are often more expensive for students and place a financial burden on those who choose them. He said he would also like to see less \u201cothering\u201d of the Gender Open Housing option and see more students taking advantage of the option, not just transgender students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people if they were asked, \u2018Would you care about living next to someone of a different gender or with someone of a different gender?\u2019 I think the majority of students \u2014 and maybe this is just me projecting \u2014 but I think a majority of students wouldn\u2019t really care all that much,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Campus Housing offers gender inclusive housing<\/a>, in which certain units in three residence halls allow students of different genders to live in the same unit. The website emphasizes that \u201cThe selection of these units are made by the student; no student will be assigned to this living environment without their expressed consent to live with a specific person of any gender.\u201d Students are not required to live on campus at all, since many students commute to campus.<\/p>\n

Susan Teggatz, director of Campus Housing, reached for comment and clarification of UIC\u2019s housing policies, was unable to schedule an interview for deadline.<\/p>\n

Dav\u00edd, a first-year student at UIC and a transgender man, lives on campus. He requested his last name be kept private.<\/p>\n

He said housing at UIC is gender-based, and that there was no question about sex on the housing application. One of the dorms, Courtyard, has gender-neutral floors, he said. According to Campus Housing\u2019s website<\/a>, other buildings on campus also have single- and multiple-occupancy gender inclusive housing options available.<\/p>\n

When Dav\u00edd applied for housing, he indicated his gender was male on the housing application, but emailed Campus Housing to clarify that he was transgender. He said Campus Housing asked if he had a gender preference for roommates, and Dav\u00edd replied that he wanted to live with male students. Campus Housing asked if he identified as a male, and Dav\u00edd replied yes.<\/p>\n

He was assigned to apartment-style housing with two male students, and each person has their own room. His roommates don\u2019t know that Dav\u00edd is transgender, and he doesn\u2019t plan on telling them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my roommates first saw me, they saw my legal name, my birth name, and they were like, \u2018Oh, dude, we thought you were a girl,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018No, my dad just named me that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Dav\u00edd said his biggest complaint about housing is the distance he lives from campus \u2014 it would take him about 30 minutes to walk to school from his dorm.<\/p>\n

He said he couldn\u2019t think of anything campus housing needs to change to accommodate transgender students.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy school is actually really diverse and welcome to trans people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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