For some famously progressive colleges in Ohio, a new state law designed to keep transgender women from using women’s restrooms at schools is bringing a moment of soul-searching for students, alumni and administrators.
It’s one of many such laws adopted around the country, with the stated intent of protecting female students. The Ohio law—which applies fully to private colleges, unlike the others—allows individual institutions to decide how they will obey and enforce the measure.
But navigating the law has become a challenge, especially at colleges like Antioch and Oberlin, campuses built on a bedrock of idealism and protest where many see the law as part of a wider attack on transgender students.
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