MA Law Lets Students Pick Genders, Bathrooms
6th March 2013
If you’re a student in Massachusetts, you now have the option of visiting the locker room of your choosing under the new state guidelines about gender identity. State law now forces nondiscrimination based on gender identity. In other words, if you’re a male identifying as a female, you can hang out in the ladies’ locker room, and vice versa. “We wanted to come up with something that would best address their needs and their safety needs and affirming their identities,” said Grace Sterling Stowell of the Boston Alliance of Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Youth, who used to be a male.