
Yes, you can now get a degree in “transgender studies.”
Via Hypeline:
The taxpayer funded University of Arizona will become the first university in America to offer a transgender studies program.
The program is set to launch by fall of 2017, and will grant master’s degrees.
The school’s program will focus on sex, gender, cultural issues, political issues, and the life experiences of transgender people.
This new program will be the result of the university’s Transgender Studies Initiative, introduced in 2013.
The school has also hired three new professors to teach in the program, and plans to hire a fourth.
“The three people who had been hired were all white, and we were really trying to prioritize hiring faculty of color,” said Susan Stryker, who is in charge of the new program.
Stryker currently heads the University of Arizona’s Institute for LGBT studies. She is also an associate professor of women’s studies.
