is different from those typically associated with their assigned sex at birth.” Transgender students present themselves as male or female based on societal or cultural norms opposite of how they were biologically born. Before these students transitioned, they lived cisgender lives. Cisgender is when the way you present yourself on the outside reflects the sex one was given at birth.

Currently, three students are female to male transgender. This means they are moving from a female gender, corresponding with their birth sex, to male. There is one recent alumna who is a male to female transgender staff member at K-State. She lives her life as a woman, even though she was born with the sex of a man and lived as a man before her transition.



Adam O’Brien, senior instages in their transition. Each individual must do different things during different stages in order to fit in with the new social norms they have from transitioning from one gender to another.

O’Brien said he has been binding for about two years. He binds with a partial binder that goes from mid-sternum to the midriff area.

Binding refers to wearing a compression garment under one’s clothing to compress feminine breasts and give the body a more flat, masculine look. Binding is something most female to male transgender people must do.

For Harmon, he must wear almost a full body binder. This goes from about the collar bone to the middle of the thighs. Harmon said he has to wear a full body binder because he had large breasts, as well as