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June graduated with honors from a university in uptown New York. That university may have been Columbia.<ref name="Gilded 3">Museum of the City of New York, "Transgender in Gilded New York." ''Hidden Voices.'' Page 3. https://cdn-blob-prd.azureedge.net/prd-pws/docs/default-source/default-document-library/learn-at-home-2020/grade-12-learn-at-home-social-studies-compiled.pdf?sfvrsn=812fa9bf_4 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230621082140/https://cdn-blob-prd.azureedge.net/prd-pws/docs/default-source/default-document-library/learn-at-home-2020/grade-12-learn-at-home-social-studies-compiled.pdf?sfvrsn=812fa9bf_4 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | June graduated with honors from a university in uptown New York. That university may have been Columbia.<ref name="Gilded 3">Museum of the City of New York, "Transgender in Gilded New York." ''Hidden Voices.'' Page 3. https://cdn-blob-prd.azureedge.net/prd-pws/docs/default-source/default-document-library/learn-at-home-2020/grade-12-learn-at-home-social-studies-compiled.pdf?sfvrsn=812fa9bf_4 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230621082140/https://cdn-blob-prd.azureedge.net/prd-pws/docs/default-source/default-document-library/learn-at-home-2020/grade-12-learn-at-home-social-studies-compiled.pdf?sfvrsn=812fa9bf_4 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | ||
After graduating from that university, June went on to graduate study. Unfortunately, June's physician notified the university president that June was a sexual invert. As a result, June "was expelled from the university for being an androgyne," which caused him to suffer neurasthenia (depression), and he came close to suicide.<ref name="OutHistory 2" /><ref name="Gilded 3" /> Because of June's ordeal with being expelled for his difference, he wrote this plea in his third book, in capitals: | |||
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The suicide rate of LGBT youth is still high today, due to discrimination. | The suicide rate of LGBT youth is still high today, due to discrimination. | ||
At sixteen, June went to a college in New York, where he was also a successful scholar.<ref name="OutHistory 2" /> | |||
== Career == | == Career == |