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WASHINGTON — Twelve top colleges and universities across the US — including Columbia University in Manhattan — are expanding the number of all-gender facilities on their campuses amid the ongoing debate over transgenderism, a conservative advocacy group has found.
The all-gender designation opens intimate spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms to anyone regardless of their biological sex, warned Critical Race Training in Education, an offshoot of nonprofit Legal Insurrection.
“Our research continues to reveal the depravity and institutional capture of higher education,” CriticalRace.org managing editor Kemberlee Kaye told The Post.
“These are no longer places where ideas are debated, where intellectual furtherance exists, 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 study singles out five Ivy League schools — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania — along with UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Polytechnic Humboldt, Carnegie Mellon, Florida State, Stanford, Stony Brook, and Villanova.
Some of the schools named and shamed by CriticalRace.org boast more than 50 all-gender facilities on campus, and make clear that they are open to transgender and non-binary individuals.
Stanford, for example, has opted to “designate multi-stall restrooms with enhanced privacy features as gender-inclusive restrooms.”
The study raised safety concerns about not desigating female facilities exclusively for biological women, citing a 2023 study by the Correctional Service of Canada that found 44% of transgender female inmates had convictions for sex-related offenses.
“No woman should be forced to change in front of a man — this is not and should not be controversial,” Kaye added.
Legal Insurrection founder William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law School, hinted the colleges could face complaints over the all-gender facilities and even a loss of federal funding.
“No decision has been made but certainly we are investigating potential Title IX violations,” Jacobson told The Post. “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.
“Female spaces are being invaded in the cause of gender identity.”
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld state level restrictions on biological males competing in girls’ sports even if they are transgender. Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, schools are bared from getting federal funds if they discriminate on the basis of sex.
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