• Dawn Bryden, Interim Associate Dean of Student Development/Title IX Deputy bdryden@asnuntuck.edu, 860-253-1277
• Security: Monday to Thursday 7:00AM – 10:00PM, Friday: 7:00AM – 5:00PM, & Saturday 8:00AM – 4:00PM. Contact: (860) 253-3012 or (860) 253-3013
• Any members of the Sart Campus Resource Team
• Student Pride Club contact Laurie Chancey at mailto:lchancey@asnuntuck.edu

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For any questions regarding Title IX please contact Timothy St. James, Interim Dean of Students/Title IX Deputy at (860) 253-3011 or tstjames@asnuntuck.edu 

GLBT National Help Center (24-hour hotline)

1-888-834-4564

The Trevor Project

Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.

• TrevorLifeline – You can call the Trevor Lifeline to connect with a trained volunteer counselor who is ready to listen at 866-488-7386.
• TrevorText– You can text message with a trained counselor on Fridays between 4:00PM and 8:00PM. Text the word “Trevor” to 1-202-304-1200. Standard text messaging rates apply.
• TrevorChat – If you want to talk with a trained volunteer counselor online, visit TrevorChat. It’s a free, confidential chat service available 7 days a week from 3:00PM – 9:00PM.

National Crisis Support for Transgender People Trans Lifeline

1-877-565-8860

YWCA (sexual assault crisis service)

Confidential 24-hour hotlines:

• English 1-888-999-5545
• Spanish 1-888-568-8332
• Local (Hartford) 1-860-547-1022

To make an appointment, contact Amanda Carrington, College Advocate, at 860-215-8179.

Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective

True Colors

A non-profit organization that works with other social service agencies, schools, organizations, and within communities to ensure that the needs of sexual and gender minority youth are both recognized and competently met.

UniTy of the Pioneer Valley (Springfield-area trans support group)

UniTy of the Pioneer Valley is the Springfield, MA, transgender support group. Their meetings are held on the second Thursday of every month (Sept. – June) at 3300 Main St., Springfield, MA at 7:00PM.

The Human Rights Campaign

The Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, HRC envisions a world where LGBT people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.

FORGE

A national transgender anti-violence organization, founded in 1994. Since 2009, they have been federally funded to provide direct services to transgender, gender non-conforming and gender non-binary survivors of sexual assault.

GLAAD

GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBT acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life they love.

Asexual: Person who is not sexually attracted to anyone but can still experience/feel romantic attraction or aesthetic attraction.

Bisexual: A person who is physically, and/or sexually attracted to two or more genders. This attraction does not have to be equally split between genders and there may be a preference for one gender over others.

Cisgender: A person whose preferred gender identity matches the one designated to them at birth.

Demisexual: A person who does not experience sexual attraction until they have a strong emotional bond with a person.

Gay: 1) Term used in some cultural settings to represent males who are attracted to males in a romantic, erotic and/or emotional sense. Not all men who engage in “homosexual behavior” identify as gay, and as such this label should be used with caution. 2) Term used to refer to the LGBTQIA community as a whole, or as an individual identity label for anyone who does not identify as heterosexual.

Gender: A societal construct based on the binary gender assigned at birth and expectations then expected based on that assignment. The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones): traditional concepts of gender.

Gender Identity: Refers to an individual’s internal sense of gender. A person’s gender identity may be different from or the same as the person’s sex assigned at birth.

Gender binary: The idea that there are only two genders-male/female or man/woman and that a person must be strictly gendered as either/or.

Gender non-conforming: Gender identities that exist outside of the gender binary.

Gender neutral: Suitable for, applicable to, or common to all genders. Not referring to either sex but only to people in general.

Gender expression: How one represents or expresses one’s gender identity to others, often through behavior, clothing, hairstyle, body features and voice characteristics.

Gender transition: Refers to the process in which transgender individuals begin asserting the sex that corresponds to their gender identity instead of the sex they were assigned at birth. During gender transition, individuals begin to live and identify as the sex consistent with their gender identity and may dress differently, adopt a new name, and use pronouns consistent with their gender identity. Transgender individuals may undergo gender transition at any stage of their lives, and gender transition can happen swiftly or over a long duration of time.

Heterosexual: Pertaining to a person’s sexual attraction to the opposite sex within the gender binary.

Homosexual: A person physically, and/or sexually attracted to members of the same sex.

Intersex: Someone whose sex a doctor has a difficult time categorizing as either male or female. A person whose combination of chromosomes, gonads, hormones, internal sex organs,and/or genitals differs from one of the binary expectations.

Lesbian: Relating to homosexual women or to homosexuality in women: a lesbian relationship. Origin: Late 19th century: via Latin from Greek Lesbios, from Lesbos, home of Sappho, who expressed affection for women in her poetry, + -ian.

Pansexual: A person who is sexually attracted to people regardless of gender.

Polyamorous: Refers to honest, usually non-possessive, relationships with multiple partners and can include: open relationships, polyfidelity (which involves multiple romantic relationships with sexual contact restricted to those), and sub relationships (which denote distinguishing between a “primary” relationship or relationships and various “secondary” relationships).

Queer: A reclaimed word that was formerly used solely as a slur but that has been semantically overturned by members of the maligned group, who use it as a term of defiant pride. It is an umbrella term which embraces a matrix of sexual preferences, orientations, and habits of the non-exclusively-heterosexual-and-monogamous majority. Queer includes lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transpeople, intersex persons, asexuals, and other sex communities.

Questioning: Someone who is unsure of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Sex assigned at birth: refers to the sex designation recorded on an infant’s birth certificate should such a record be provided at birth.

Transgender: describes those individuals whose gender identity is different from the sex they were assigned at birth. A transgender male is someone who identifies as male but was assigned the sex of female at birth; a transgender female is someone who identifies as female but was assigned the sex of male at birth.

Rainbow Center. University of Connecticut, LGBTQIA Dictionary. Sexuality, Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression

CCSU LGBT Center

ECSU Pride Center

SCSU (S.A.G.E.) Center

WCSU Counseling Center

UCONN Rainbow Center

UMASS The Stonewall Center

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Dear Colleague Letter on Transgender

Notice of Non-discrimination: Asnuntuck Community College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, age, sex, national origin, marital status, ancestry, present or past history of mental disorder, learning disability or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or genetic information in its programs and activities. In addition, the College does not discriminate in employment on the basis of veteran status or criminal record. The following individuals have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Timothy St. James, Interim Dean of Students/Title IX Deputy, tstjames@asnuntuck.edu (860) 253-3011 and Deborah Kosior, 504/ADA Coordinator, AS-DisabilityServices@asnuntuck.edu (860) 253-3005, Asnuntuck Community College, 170 Elm Street, Enfield, CT 06082. Políticas Antidiscriminatorias: Asnuntuck Community College no discrimina por razones de raza, color, creencias religiosas, edad, género, nacionalidad, estado civil, ascendencia, historia presente o pasada de discapacidad mental o física, problemas de aprendizaje, orientación sexual, Identidad y expresión de género, o información genética, en sus programas o actividades. Adicionalmente Asnuntuck no discrimina individuos por razones pertinentes a la categoría de veteranos o historia criminal. Las siguientes personas han sido designadas para resolver cualquier inquietud pertinente a las políticas antidiscriminatorias: Timothy St. James, Interim Dean of Students/Title IX Deputy, tstjames@asnuntuck.edu (860) 253-3011 and Deborah Kosior, 504/ADA Coordinator, AS-DisabilityServices@asnuntuck.edu (860) 253-3005, Asnuntuck Community College, 170 Elm Street, Enfield, CT 06082.