This
spring
the
Bay
Area
and
SJSU
community
have
a
unique
opportunity to
participate in a Transgender Awareness Week designed to
place the transgender experience into a context by which it can be
readily understood.
Over the past decade there has been heightened public awareness of
transgender issues. With the increased visibility of transgender
persons also comes an increase in discrimination and violence directed
at transgender, intersex, and gender variant people. The Gender
Education and Advocacy organization states that, “Transgendered people
are the most stigmatized and misunderstood of the larger sexual
minorities (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender).” In spite of this,
the transgender community is emerging into its own place in history, as
a new movement, expanding the language of gender and sex.
In an effort to foster education and community building, the SJSU
Transgender Awareness Week hopes to promote a positive
and empowering dialogue featuring various speakers and artists dealing
with the transgender experience.
Transgender and other gender variant people live and work in our
communities. They are your students, colleagues, employees,
administrators, friends, and family members. Please join us and help to
make the Bay Area a safer, more enlightened, diverse community.
Faculty & Groups: If you would like to build the week's events into your Spring schedule please contact us to reserve seating space.
