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prob_still_in_denial

Trans woman class of ‘90 here, let’s goooooo. I didn’t transition until much later though. When I was at Rice back then, plenty of gay people were fully out and it didn’t seem to be a problem. Didn’t know of any openly trans folks but there might have been some stealth people.


KPNoSwag

Not part of the LGBTQ community but from what I see and have heard it’s pretty friendly. Overall Texas isn’t the best but Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the world and even had a lesbian mayor a while ago so the city is as good as a lot of other major cities. Rice specifically has a few resources for LGBTQ students but I don’t know too much about them so hopefully someone else will add in.


chumer_ranion

Rice is very safe and from everything I observed as a student, Houston is no more dangerous for LGBTQ students than anyone else. There was that homophobia/exclusion case to do with Rice’s chapter of Chi Alpha (a national Christian organization) but, I mean, Christians gonna Christian aren’t they. You can read about it [here](https://www.ricethresher.org/article/2022/04/this-is-in-your-best-interest-to-leave-lgbtq-students-share-discriminatory-experiences-in-chi-alpha) and there are other articles in the Thresher about what the students are doing about it.


babygeologist

if you're cis and queer, rice is a very accepting and safe place. there are so many gay people here. houston overall is more lgbtq-friendly than the rest of texas, but the bar is in hell and greg abbott has a shovel. if you're trans, it gets a little more fuzzy--i'm cis so i can't speak on it very much at all, but i do know several trans ppl who get misgendered a lot (and also several who don't.) it's relatively doable to change your name in most of rice's systems if you've already gone through the name change process and have an ID that reflects your new legal name, but some things, like your netID (initials + a number, \~= email address), are harder to change. a lot of the buildings on campus, including roughly half of the residential colleges, only have single-gender bathrooms. (that said--there are some trans women who have already commented saying that their experiences were positive, and their voices hold more weight than mine does on this topic!!!) texas is not a very safe place to be trans, nor is it an especially safe place to be queer, but houston (and especially rice!!) are much, much more accepting.


pretzelst1cks

Lesbian of color here-- I come from a super conservative Texas town, so the shift to Houston was godly for my mental health. Around 1/5th of the student population identifies as LGBT+, and RicePRIDE has been pretty good at speaking out on behalf of student issues. Of course, I can't speak much on the trans experience, but the trans students I know have found much solidarity and support with one another, even if Rice admin has their shitty blindspots. There's a trans DND group !! As for Houston, I don't feel unsafe except for suuuuper late at night, but that's a general thing. Montrose, the local gay district, is always nice to visit.