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Spectrum News: Wright State University students rally for transgender rights

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Excerpt from Spectrum News

It’s been one month since Ohio Senate Bill 104 took effect and since then many college campuses have updated the designation of bathrooms, locker and changing rooms to be only used by people based on their sex assigned at birth.

Facilities that were gender neutral are now labeled for use by men and women.

Tess Zagorski is a second year doctoral student at Wright State University in Dayton. She has a sibling who is non-binary and wanted to raise awareness.

“This was a very blatant disregard for intersex students, trans students, non-binary students, gender fluid students,” Zagorski said.

 For graduate student Hanna Sweeney, coming out to show support was an easy decision.

“My partner is non-binary, so it’s pretty close to home for me,” she said.