Interview with Chad Pitts

Chad Pitts identifies as a straight transgender man assigned female at birth. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona and now lives in Fargo, North Dakota as a student at NDSU, North Dakota State University, and works at North Dakota State College of Science where he is out as trans. He came out at 18 as a lesbian to his parents since he didn’t have a word to describe how he was feeling at the time. He didn’t identify with his body and found that he was attracted to women. His girlfriend at the time, who he later married, went through the entire transition process with him. She was taking a human sexuality class at the time and invited him along when they discussed gender identity. That was the first time he learned about it and then he came out later that night. He was also one of the co-coordinators for Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict’s conference on Dismantling Walls Conference in Fargo, North Dakota, at North Dakota State University.

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Identifier: x633f1200
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Pitts, Chad
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Oct. 15, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Dismantling Walls Conference
GPACC Dismantling Walls Conference
Places: North Dakota
North Dakota > Cass County > City of Fargo > Fargo
North Dakota > Cass County > City of Fargo > NDSU
Topic(s): Acceptance
Coming out
Gender identity
LGBTQ+ partners
Sexual orientation
Social norms
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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