{"id":8047,"date":"2015-11-24T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2015-11-24T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:52:34","slug":"transgender-at-bu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/2015\/11\/24\/transgender-at-bu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender at BU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span>ay a<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/familymed\/files\/2015\/11\/Picture5-450x300.png\" alt=\"Picture5\" width=\"348\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/files\/2015\/11\/Picture5-450x300.png 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/files\/2015\/11\/Picture5.png 997w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/>rrived on the\u00a0BU campus two years ago as a freshman from Texas who identified as female and lesbian. A sociology class that October changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome theorist had talked about\u00a0how everything we think about in society is a social construct,\u201d Ray (a pseudonym) says. \u201cWe were talking about that in direct relation to gender, and there was a moment when I felt, in my brain, like something fell apart. I could feel the fabric of my reality crumbling. It was scariest thing I\u2019d ever felt. I was like, \u2018Maybe I\u2019m not a female.\u2019 That thought had never crossed my mind before. It was really shocking to me as an 18-year-old. What am I supposed to do with this information?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray (CAS\u201917) came to BU in part because it promised a more welcoming environment than that in Texas. \u201cI had never really thought about identifying as transgender while I was growing up or at school, but I think that may have been due to lack of exposure and lack of a comfortable space to explore,\u201d Ray says. \u201cWhen I came to BU, a lot of things changed for me, perspective-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Ray spent much of freshman year grappling with gender identity in \u201ccrisis mode,\u201d and on-campus counseling didn\u2019t provide an answer. \u201cPeople can point you to resources,\u201d Ray says, \u201cbut it\u2019s your personal identification that only you can figure out internally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/transgender-at-bu\/\" title=\"here\">here <\/a>to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray arrived on the\u00a0BU campus two years ago as a freshman from Texas who identified as female and lesbian. A sociology class that October changed everything. \u201cSome theorist had talked about\u00a0how everything we think about in society is a social construct,\u201d Ray (a pseudonym) says. \u201cWe were talking about that in direct relation to gender, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8053,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/familymed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}