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• You are not alone! Other students have transitioned on campus.
• There are resources to support you. The GLBT Resource Center, as well as other departments, can help with finding support and resources to help. (ex. Lists of gender neutral bathroom spaces across campus, campus name change processes, notifying professors about name change and pronoun usage, accessing health care on campus, emotional support, etc.)
• Some students, faculty and staff at CU- Boulder have and continue to do a great deal of work to help make this campus a safer place for transgender and gender variant individuals.
• Finding community with other transgender and gender variant folks can be helpful in the transitioning process.
• CU Boulder can be a difficult place to navigate. Get help!

Transitioning is a term often used by members of the trans community to describe the process in which a person ceases to live as the gender assigned to them at birth and begins to live in the gender or genders they identify with. Transitioning may include changing one’s name, clothing, mannerisms, hair style, voice and/or pronoun preference. For some, taking hormones, having different types of surgery, and/or changing legal documents (e.g. driver’s license, Social Security number, birth certificate) are steps people take to reflect their gender identity.

Transitioning can be a life long process or a number of events that occur in a short period of time. Transitioning on a college campus, and here at CU Boulder, can be challenging for many.

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