Posted on 03/29/2016 6:18:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a pioneering move, the Cooper Union administration is taking steps to remove the designations across campus, following student action last year.
Last fall, the oldest building here 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 here in lower Manhattan, at one of the most liberal colleges in the country, students who failed to conform to gender norms nevertheless risked harassment whenever they went to the bathroom.
But then, the unexpected happened. The signs were never replaced. And in an apparent first for a US college, the Cooper Union administration this month moved to remove the gender designations from all the bathrooms on campus by taking down the rest of the men’s and women’s signage from bathrooms.
To the students involved, it was victory.
“A public facility shouldn’t have to ask if you’re a man or a woman,” said Rio Sofia, one of the students who put pressure on the administration. “It should just ask, do you need to pee or poop?”
North Carolina blocks local laws on transgender use of bathrooms Read more In less scatalogical terms, the interim president of Cooper Union recently made clear that he agrees. “From a practical standpoint, very little will actually change in our day-to-day use of restrooms,” the president, Bill Mea, wrote in an 18 March email to the campus announcing the change. “But it reflects where I believe Cooper Union needs to stand.
“I cannot change the outside world and how it treats transgender and gender non-conforming people,” he continued. “But I can change the Cooper Union environment to help everyone feel safe when they are inside our buildings.”
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So how will Muslim teen girls know which bathroom to use?
Liberals never think. They just act.
Are they going to tear down the walls next?
“Cooper Union administration is taking steps to remove the designations across campus”..........
Send you kids to college to be taught by complete IDIOTS!
Aren’t restrooms obsolete in NY? Isn’t is OK now to just go on the street?
I think this is just an evil plot by women who don’t like the fact that men don’t have to wait in line to go to the bathroom because they can use urinals, so they are creating gender neutral bathrooms to force men to wait too . . . . .
College is becoming a joke
These are the people who say that Republicans are extremists.
Take a dump in their broom closet. “Oops, I was confused.”
RE: Send you kids to college to be taught by complete IDIOTS!
For those who don’t know, Cooper Union is one of the few colleges in the country where tuition is FREE if you are able to get in.
And this school does not teach any fluff courses. They are a pure STEM college.
For those who don’t know, Cooper Union is one of the few colleges in the country where tuition is FREE if you are able to get in.
And this school does not teach any fluff courses. They are a pure STEM college.
This will end as soon as men start using the sinks as urinals to save time. As George Costanza said, "it's all pipes!"
This is Satan’s time, filled with madness, bloodlust, and despair.
I would not hire. They, too, have gone insane.
EEEEwwwwww....girl cooties.
Parents should remove their children from this insane asylum.
So how will Muslim teen girls know which bathroom to use?
Liberals never think. They just act.
Saint until the girls discover the joy of wiping pee off the toilet seat. They’ll be having second thoughts about the wisdom of this stupid action.
They should tear down that ugly building.
“Saint”??
Supposed to be “Wait,” of course.
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