The Essential Guide to Sexuality Universities can be a haven from ignorance and prejudice for transsexuals. But the academic debate about whether it is possible to change sex rages on. Phil Baty reports When Susan Marshall started her career as a bursar at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1988, she was a man. Simon Stone became Susan in 1993, and barely an eyebrow was raised. In the academic establishment, people are judged by their brains.
All academe asks for is a good brain.
People accept you for what you think, not what you look like. Or move to Holland. In Britain the legal position for transsexuals is oppressive. People cannot legally register a change of gender, transsexual marriage is out, and the fight for parental rights is fraught with difficulties. But universities, it would seem, are the place to escape this official prejudice.