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'Not left out on purpose,' Kolieboi said. 'Just not exclusively discussed.'
A discussion called 'The 'T' in LGBT' began the week's events Monday. Defining the word 'transgender' dominated the first portion of the discussion.
The TransAction Team is an advocacy group based on campus dedicated to transgender issues. It was created last semester by Student Health Center Health Educator Heather Eastman-Mueller and John Elizabeth Faughn, the former Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Resource Center coordinator.
The team's official definition of transgender is 'an umbrella term that encompasses any person who varies from Western society's binary conventions of gender and sex.'
According to Eastman-Mueller, it is important to note that people must self-identify as transgender for the word to apply.
At the event, different attendees provided their personal definitions of what it means to be transgender.
Sophomore Emily Colvin has a wide-reaching definition similar to TransAction's. She also said a lot of gender is socialization.
'Society has a gender binary,' Colvin said. 'You're either male or female
Weak as sales forecasts may be, now is the time of year when retailers do the bulk of their business.
Circuit City said it was afraid that without Chapter 11 protection it could not get the electronics inventory shipped to its stores in time for Black Friday the shopping spree that occurs the day after Thanksgiving.
Also on Monday, a Tampa business sought the Chapter 11 umbrella. Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, whose stock was bounced off the Nasdaq market earlier this month for failing to meet a minimum market value, says it plans to significantly decrease operating expenses and focus cash and resources on drug development to attract outside investors again.
The Chapter 11 club used to be of modest size. Now its one of the few things growing in this down economy
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