Beyond black and white

Caitlin Price / Staff Writer
Ashley Luthern / For The Post
The Post
Athens, Ohio

When Cory Frederick’s mother dressed Cory in a pink, yellow and blue Easter jumper as a kid, she knew that look didn’t fit her child’s character. Cory “looked like a pumpkin” and knew it didn’t fit, either.

After a 10-year transformation, Cory transitioned from the little girl in the jumper to his current masculine identity.

Cory Frederick, an Ohio University junior geology major, is a transgendered person, one of several on campus that comprise the “T” in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — LGBT — community.

Frederick and other members of the LGBT community on campus and their allies will hold an informational program called Trans 101: Understanding the “T,” as part of Pride Week at 8 tonight in Baker 354.

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