"From storytelling to practical application, Trans* Policies & Experiences in Housing & Residence Life is a necessary text for residential life professionals across all levels."
Van Bailey, Director, LGBTQ Student Center
University of Miami
"As a resource for practitioners, educators, and students, this book does important work in examining the pervasiveness of binaried gender norms in higher education, and the ways those norms shape institutions and policies. Its aim is not to serve as a guide for enacting trans*-supportive policies but, instead, as a collection of moments when such policies came to be, and a consideration of why those policies mattered to the institutions and all of their students. The chapters emphases on context and personal reflection reinforce that such policies are ongoing and essential, and that ever-shifting understandings of gender demand equally dynamic and responsive efforts to support trans* students."
Teachers College Record
Cultural change does not happen suddenly and completely. Instead, within our sphere of influence, we must remove those structural artifacts that support a gender binary and are not gender inclusive. Our students deserve all of our focus and energy to dismantle those artifacts, piece by piece. Making sure every student has a residence hall home to return to at the end of the day is the least we can do. This book gives us the tools needed to accomplish that.
Kathleen G. Kerr, Associate Vice President for Student Life and Executive Director of Residence Life & Housing
University of Delaware
