The Need for a National Solution for Our Bipolar Educational System for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students

2014 ◽  
pp. 257-274
Author(s):  
Tracy Phariss
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

Supporting Our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Students

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 24-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Henquinet ◽  
Anne Phibbs ◽  
Barbara Skoglund
Keyword(s):  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

Challenging Respectability: Student Health Directors Providing Services to Lesbian and Gay Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Thai-Huy Nguyen ◽  
AndrÉs Castro Samayoa ◽  
Marybeth Gasman ◽  
Steve Mobley
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Student Health ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Transgender Students ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

Background Researchers have tended to favor scholarship that looks at institutional forms of support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students in the context of resource centers specifically tailored to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students. Our study makes two distinct contributions to the study of gay and lesbian students of color: (1) We move away from resource centers as a focal point of support for students and attempt to explore the role of student health at 11 HBCUs; and (2) We draw attention to the ways in which health administrators challenge the influence of respectability to promote the delivery of healthcare that is attuned to the needs and experiences of sexual minorities, thereby providing evidence that pushes back against dominant narratives that reinforce HBCUs as homogenous communities of conservatism and homophobia. Research Question This study seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How do student health directors at HBCUs promote policies and practices that are attuned to the health of their gay and lesbian students? and (2) What conditions are developed to cultivate a student health center that not only addresses students’ physical health, but is also “in a position to reaffirm these students”? Participants Eleven student health directors at 4-year private and public HBCUs. Research Design The inquiry is situated within the tradition of narrative analyses. Semistructured interviews were conducted with our participants. Data Collection and Analysis We structured each interview around six broad open-ended questions that offered opportunities for us to tease out unique areas of tension during the interview and to “lead the respondent on a journey, to a frame of mind from which she will understand our ‘big’ questions.” These questions included perceptions of challenges and successes of campus inclusiveness for sexual minority students, clinical services, sensitivity training for staff, and the presence of same gender loving brochures and messaging. Findings Our data offers a narrative that illuminates the forces that shape the challenges and opportunities for student health directors (SHDs) to engender change within and outside student health centers and how that ultimately affects the provision of health services to gay and lesbian students. More importantly, it showcases how efforts are made to challenge the influence of respectability to ensure student health and well-being. The findings are organized under the following themes: (a) building trust, (b) partnerships, (c) resistance, and (d) envisioning next steps. Conclusions We provide an extensive discussion in how student health directors manage the challenges associated with dominant institutional ideologies, as well as critical implications for future research and practice.

Japanese university students’ views on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals based on previous encounters

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasa Ikuta ◽  
Yuji Koike ◽  
Naoko Aoyagi ◽  
Akira Matsuzaka ◽  
Kenji Ishihara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
School Life ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Japanese University ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Japanese Youth ◽  
Lgbt Individuals

Abstract Objective: To elucidate the acceptability of sexual minorities according to Japanese youth, we conducted a survey targeting university students. Methods: Participants were second- to fourth-year students (n=945) at Ibaraki University, Japan, who were randomly chosen for the survey to measure their attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. We divided the respondents into two groups: one group who had encounters with LGBT people, and one group with no such experience. Chi-square tests were used to compare responses between the groups. Results: More than 60% of the students considered LGBT people to be acceptable; the group with prior encounters had greater levels of acceptance compared to the group without such encounters. Conclusion: This is the first study to clarify the acceptability of sexual minorities among university students in Japan. Our data suggested that having contact with LGBT people in school life may help build an inclusive educational system.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: Revisiting Retention

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Legg ◽  
Andy Cofino ◽  
Ronni Sanlo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Similar Nature ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Bisexual

In 2004, Sanlo published a proposed method to examine the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual college students and their persistence to graduation. Transgender students were not included except with regard to their identifying as a sexual minority. To date, neither further articles nor research of a similar nature have been published. Even with heightened visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students on college campuses, the literature still does not capture the specific and unique experiences of health, scholarship, and persistence of this population. These scholar–practitioner authors share their various experiences as directors of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) centers and why retention studies of the LGBTQ population are necessary as well as why transgender or gender-nonconforming students must also be included in such studies.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in engineering: Climate and perceptions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn F. Trenshaw ◽  
Ashley Hetrick ◽  
Ramona F. Oswald ◽  
Sharra L. Vostral ◽  
Michael C. Loui
Keyword(s):  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender
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