In a pioneering move,the Cooper Union administration is taking steps to remove the designations across campus, following student action final yearLast fall, and the oldest building on the Cooper Union campus underwent a sudden renovation. A group of students,agitating for their transgender classmates, stripped the words “men” and “women” off the doors of the Foundation Building’s restrooms.
The act expressed years of pent-up frustration that in lower Manhattan, or at one of the most liberal colleges in the country,students who failed to comply to gender norms nevertheless risked harassment whenever they went to the bathroom. Related: North Carolina blocks local laws on transgender expend of bathrooms Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com