'There's a difference between a school being LGB-friendly and TQ-friendly. I think a lot of times they'll say that they have an LGBTQ anti-discrimination policy and it's really more of an LGB one.'
last fall, the number one thing they were looking for was finding a place where they could grow personally and academically. They were also looking for a campus that would embrace their identity as a non-binary trans man. “Reed is that place for me,” says Shattuck, who is currently a freshman at Reed College, a private liberal arts institution in Portland, Oregon.
The decision of where to apply for college is fraught for many college seniors, wrapped up in questions of academics, finances, and for some like Shattuck, identity. While LGBTQ+ students face many of the same issues as any applicant, they must often also wrestle with a number of unique challenges ranging from whether or not to share their sexual orientation and gender identity with admissions officials to where they are going to live once on campus.
She notes that different students will have different questions depending on how they identify. “Each letter of the LGBTQ+ acronym is going to face different challenges... Transgender and gender non-binary/non-conforming students may have different or specific questions when visiting prospective schools, including gender neutral restrooms, the ability to change names on internal school documents such as an ID, and support from residence life offices to find housing options,” Lund explains.
Shattuck expands on this. “There's a difference between a school being LGB-friendly and TQ-friendly. I think a lot of times they'll say that they have an LGBTQ anti-discrimination policy and it's really more of an LGB one,” they say. “To actually be queer- and trans-friendly, schools should have training on like microaggressions and using preferred pronouns and things like that.”
The good news that there are a number of resources available to students and their families to help identify institutions that embrace the queer community, as well as those that do not. Campus Pride, an organization dedicated to creating safer campuses for LGBTQ+, publishes
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