Queer Resource Center Trans & Nonbinary Resources

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This page exists as an expanding and changing resource for the trans community at Amherst College. In order to make life on campus more comfortable and navigable, all resources that are available to and that center trans students, staff, and faculty are compiled and explained below. These resources include administrative and legal regulations and advice, healthcare and presentation information, gender-inclusive housing and restroom information, and help with finding communities/trans spaces in the area. While orienting yourself in a space that privileges cisgender people can be challenging, isolating, and overwhelming, the QRC is working hard to center trans experiences, particularly the experiences of trans POC. Please email us if you have any questions!

Statement of Nondiscrimination

Amherst College does not discriminate in admission, employment, or administration of its programs and activities on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity), age, disability, genetic information, military service, or any other characteristic or class protected under applicable federal, state or local law. Amherst College complies with all state and federal laws that prohibit discrimination, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Title IX, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Inquiries should be addressed to the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Amherst College, P.O. Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002-5000. The College’s Interim Director of Civil Rights and Title IX Coordinator is Tracy Kennedy, 79 S. Pleasant Street, Suite 120, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, email: crtixoffice@amherst.edu; office website: Amherst.edu/offices/title-ix.

Student Life

Queer Resource Center

The mission of the Queer Resource Center (QRC) is to support the queer and trans students of Amherst College. The QRC seeks to empower the lives of queer and trans students and provide a safe, intentional, open, and confidential atmosphere where students can gather openly and discuss relevant issues/topics. Through dynamic programming and educational outreach, the QRC seeks to improve the campus climate for queer and trans students and advocate for the respect and safety of all members of the campus community.

Women's and Gender Center

The Women’s and Gender Center seeks to foster a critical awareness of gender and create an intentional space, accessible to students of all genders, that will serve as a resource and forum for topics and issues related specifically to women and, more broadly, to the experience of gender. The Center promotes learning about and exploring gender through personal experience, academic inquiry, community organizing, and discussion across difference. Visit the webpage here. 

Trans Affnity Space

Open to current students and alumni in the five colleges, this space centers all folks of trans experience, including those who explicitly identify as transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, and/or at some distance from the gender they were assigned at birth and/or who are exploring their gender identity. This space is coordinator and supported by both the QRC and WGC. **Paused/ Not meeting Fall 2022

Nonbinary Affnity Space

This space is dedicated to empowering and uplifting nonbinary, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender creative students, faculty, and staff. This is a space that centers people who identify within these groups or who are exploring their identities **Paused/ Not meeting Fall 2022

Queer/Trans People of Color (QTPOC)

QTPOC (Queer and/or Trans People of Color) group seeks to support students in the five colleges who identify as queer/trans/genderqueer people of color. This group seeks to provide a safe space for queer people of color to build community, to celebrate all facets of our identities, and to engage in meaningful discussion. This space is coordinator and supported by both the QRC and MRC. **Paused/ Not meeting Fall 2022

Queer Talk

Fridays, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the QRC
Join the QRC and our counselors Dr. Britt Billmeyer-Finn (she/they) and Dr. Caitlin Carmody (she/her) for a weekly space that aims to guide those present navigating queerness, transness, and other parts of ourselves both at Amherst and beyond.

Pride Alliance

Queer and trans student organization of Amherst College. Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2200012963/