Are FtM transsexuals welcome in Mount Holyoke Lyons Pride?
This issue originally came up before the membership in 2001, when a longtime member transitioned and formally asked if he could still be a member because he felt an affinity to the College and to the queer community. Forty members wrote in response, and all of them supported keeping this member in the network. When the group changed to Mount Holyoke Lyon’s Pride, the membership specifically indicated that the scope of the group was to include transgendered and intersexed people. There is current interest in forming a subgroup for anyone interested in gender issues — butch/femme, transsexual/transgender, and intersex among them. One of the discussion lists, LP-Gender-Chat, is the first forum specifically dedicated to these issues for our members, where discussion will include the possibility of forming an official subgroup within Mount Holyoke Lyon’s Pride.
