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Bowdoin College Changing Locker Rooms for Transgender Athletes

Bowdoin College is making structural changes to its locker rooms to provide more privacy for student-athletes whose gender identity doesn't match their biological sex. A story in The Bowdoin Orient, the student newspaper, doesn't describe the changes, but describes the experience of a biological female senior who identifies as "non-binary, transmasculine," meaning more masculine than feminine.

Bowdoin College is making structural changes to its locker rooms to provide more privacy for student-athletes whose gender identity doesn't match their biological sex. A story in The Bowdoin Orient, the student newspaper, doesn't describe the changes, but describes the experience of a biological female senior who identifies as "non-binary, transmasculine," meaning more masculine than feminine.…