Sandili Sol Chauncey? How far can transphobia take you?

Back in September of 2007, the transgender community was up in arms when Sandili Sol Chauncey, a Duke student at the time demanded her roomate, a transitional female, be removed from the female dorms. At the time, Lee Chauncey, her father went on the news and said this:

Well as the one person pointed out, Duke "does have" a policy that prohibits discrimination against gender.


So technically it's not Duke's fault. However, Duke did act on this father's hypocritical request and went against that policy it appears.


The truth is, they should have told this guy, thank you for your opinion, and leave it at that.

Of course, after a little footwork, we discovered that Lee was in fact the father of Sandili, and it was she that the story was really about. A whole discussion went on here. Over the years, she's layed low, and her and her father have stayed out of the limelight, likely due to the unexpected exposure of their transphobia. Yet it doesn't seem to have stopped her from landing a $32,000 dollar a year job at the University of Texas, Oncology department. Aparently prejudice and bigotry does have its rewards.

I often wonder about the anonymous woman, who ended up exiled from the process. Both her and Miss Chauncey were extremely lucky to afford the $40,000 a year tuition of Duke. Perhaps that's what's wrong with me? Maybe if I was a bit more of an asshole, I'd make it further in this world? Till then, I'll just keep slugging away in community college, because I can't afford the cost on my conscience of what Sandili traded to get where she is.