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University ‘Queer + Trans People Of Color Coalition’ Wants All-Gender Locker Room

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A New York professor shared Friday an initiative by an LGBTQ group to install an all-gender locker room in their school’s fitness center.

Long Island University professor Sheila P. Vakharia shared Hofstra University’s queer and trans people of color coalition’s tweet urging students to sign a form if they supported the initiative.

“Are you a Hofstra student?” the group asked. “Do you like trans and gender nonconforming people? If so, fill out this quick form — it only takes a few minutes, and with your support we’ll be one step closer to getting an all-gender locker room in the Fitness Center!”

Their advertisement features a graphic displaying an individual looking at two bathroom doors. The female one is labeled “get yelled at” and the male one has subtext reading “get beat up.”

Are you a Hofstra student? Do you like trans and gender nonconforming people? If so, fill out this quick form — it only takes a few minutes, and with your support we’ll be one step closer to getting an all-gender locker room in the Fitness Center! https://t.co/NzUmqMQQUh pic.twitter.com/0PAsabD9lj

— QTPOCC (@hu_qtpocc) June 7, 2018

Hofstra’s queer and trans people of color coalition hosts discussions pertaining to the “intersectionality” of gender, race, and queerness and “address implicit and explicit biases.” (RELATED: Feminist Scholar Analyzes History Of Pelicans And ‘Racialized, Sexual Violence’)

The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Hofstra for comment but received none in time for press.

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