A dozen U.S. colleges and universities, including five Ivy League schools, have implemented all-gender restrooms and locker rooms, according to a report from Critical Race Training in Education.
CriticalRace.org managing editor Kemberlee Kaye stated that their research “continues to reveal the depravity and institutional capture of higher education.”
“These are no longer places where ideas are debated, where intellectual furtherance exists,” Kaye added. “Instead, they’re dangerous and hostile to the point that women are not guaranteed single sex safe spaces to shower or use the facilities.”
The schools cited include Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Cal State Polytechnic Humboldt, Carnegie Mellon University, Florida State University, Stanford University, Stony Brook University, and Villanova University.
Some institutions have more than 50 all-gender restrooms or changing rooms accessible to all users, including transgender and nonbinary individuals.
“No woman should be forced to change in front of a man — this is not and should not be controversial,” Kaye stated.
William Jacobson, founder of Legal Insurrection and a professor at Cornell Law School— one of the 12 schools named—warned that the institutions could face complaints and loss of federal funding.
“No decision has been made but certainly we are investigating potential Title IX violations,” Jacobson said.
“This raises significant Title IX issues and possible violations, particularly in light of the recent Supreme Court interpretation of Title IX regarding boys in girls’ sports. ‘Gender identity’ does not override female rights as a matter of federal law,” he added.
“Female spaces are being invaded in the cause of gender identity,” Jacobson stated.
