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This paper examines the implications of social work education upon licensed social workers' desire, knowledge, and competency to work with members of the trangender community. Data were collected from 150 randomly selected licensed social workers from a southern state. The results suggest that 1) it is not the norm for social workers to receive educational content regarding the transgender community and 2) the presence of education content was assocaited with a stronger desire to work with this population, more knowledge of the transgender community, and greater perceptions of competency to work with the transgender community. The results of ths exploratory study suggest that educational content regarding the transgender community should be an intergral part of the curricula provided by baccalaureate social work programs.

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The article reports that five members of Soulforce, a group that sponsors a two-month tour of 32 colleges, most of them conservative religious institutions, to protest what the group regards as discriminatory policies against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, were arrested on trespassing charges in March 2007 at Oklahoma Baptist University after they walked onto the campus to talk to students about the university's policy against homosexual activity. Activists have also been arrested at the University of Notre Dame, Central Bible College, and Wisconsin Lutheran College.

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