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LSU adding gender neutral bathrooms and housing to accommodate transgenders
Posted on 8/28/15 at 8:56 am
Posted on 8/28/15 at 8:56 am
LSU's gender neutral bathrooms
LSU's gender neutral housing
"We do have several gender-neutral bathrooms on campus right now, and (we're) working to add more," said Derrick Rovaris, vice provost for diversity at LSU. The problem (is) students are concerned that there are not enough gender-neutral bathrooms and they have to go a little ways to get to one."
LSU's gender neutral housing
"We do have several gender-neutral bathrooms on campus right now, and (we're) working to add more," said Derrick Rovaris, vice provost for diversity at LSU. The problem (is) students are concerned that there are not enough gender-neutral bathrooms and they have to go a little ways to get to one."
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At LSU's Business Education Complex, the third-floor women's restroom was recently changed to a family restroom after Peter Jenkins, a business graduate student and LGBT advocate, requested the change to accommodate transgender students.
"For a lot of people who don't understand or don't focus on gender identity very much, I look like a guy in a dress, and if they see me in the restroom, people get really upset sometimes," Jenkins told the Daily Reveille, LSU's student-run newspaper. "Transgender people have one of the highest rates of being murdered of any group of people, and for me it is a safety issue."
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"A no vote today will help assure that the children of Baton Rouge will not face the same indignities that were faced by the freshman girls in Florence High School in Florence, California, who were subjected to the indignity of a young teenage boy in their restroom -- in their girl's bathroom," said Fran White during the debate at the meeting. "The shocked and offended parents were stunned even further when they brought that to the attention of the administration who then replied that the rights of that self-proclaimed transgendered teenager triumphed their daughters rights to privacy in the girl's bathroom."
Transgender individuals using women's facilities have recently made national headlines, Most recently, Planet Fitness canceled the gym membership of a woman after she complained about a man, who identifies as a woman, using the female locker room.
Yvette Cormier, of Midland County, Michigan, said when she entered the women's locker room at the Planet Fitness, she was "freaked out" after seeing a man in there, according to Mlive.com. Cormier said an employee at the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman.
After taking her complaints to Planet Fitness' corporate office, Cormier said she was told that the gym was a "no judgment zone" and they would not tell the individual in question to stay out of the women's locker room
Posted on 8/28/15 at 8:58 am to stat19
attempting to be fair and balanced
Posted on 8/28/15 at 8:59 am to mizzoukills
Ahmahghad I'm so outraged
Posted on 8/28/15 at 8:59 am to mizzoukills
Most Department Stores have Family bathrooms, I think it reduces the amount that they have to build by code.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:01 am to mizzoukills
The world is an interesting place.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:02 am to mizzoukills
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"Transgender people have one of the highest rates of being murdered of any group of people, and for me it is a safety issue."
lol wut?
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:03 am to mizzoukills
Well we do host the Aggys every other year...
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:04 am to TheDrunkenTigah
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"Transgender people have one of the highest rates of being murdered of any group of people, and for me it is a safety issue."
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:04 am to NorthGwinnettTiger
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"Transgender people have one of the highest rates of being murdered of any group of people, and for me it is a safety issue."
Yes, when you take up less than 1% of the population and one of you is murdered it is at a higher rate than people that make up 99.9% of the population.
This post was edited on 8/28/15 at 10:40 am
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:04 am to mizzoukills
I think we can all agree the real problem is gym locker rooms with 90 year old dudes standing around butt naked.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:05 am to mizzoukills
With aTm coming to LSU this year we had to accomodate. 2013 was such a mess.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:05 am to MIZZOU_JP
Nah. That makes blood flow to my wiener and engorges it
This post was edited on 8/28/15 at 9:05 am
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:05 am to mizzoukills
Downvote in less than 15 seconds, you a tranny who has recently been murdered killz?
Posted on 8/28/15 at 9:06 am to TheDrunkenTigah
sounds like a smart way to avoid an embarrassing lawsuit
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