Transgender student asked for proof

A transgender student at Southern Utah University is being told he must prove he is a male before housing officials will accommodate him. The school's policy requires that Kourt Osborn, 22, who two years ago initiated transgender treatment and has been living as a man, must either provide school officials proof he's undergone medical interventions or that he's been diagnosed with gender identity disorder, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday. "That they would require someone to have surgery to live in the dorm is just wrong. It's absolutely irrelevant. They don't ask anyone else for proof of gender. They shouldn't be checking his genitals," said Mara Keisling, executive director for the National Center for Transgender Equality. Osborn, a sociology major, has filed a formal grievance with SUU, the newspaper reported. "I never was a woman. I was a boy trapped in this foreign girl's body," Osborn said. "Transgendering allowed me to take off the costume and make-up and allowed me to be who I am."