Campuses to follow transgender law in NC, official says

Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C.

The 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina system will follow the state’s new law about transgender people by requiring all bathrooms to be designated for use by people based on their biological sex, the system president wrote in a memo to chancellors.

President Margaret Spellings said in the memo that the 16 college campuses and the N.C. School of Science and Math must label multi-occupancy changing facilities for single-sex use.

Since the campuses already label bathrooms and changing facilities by sex, they must maintain those designations and signs, she wrote.

Schools may provide single-occupancy bathrooms or changing facilities that are gender-neutral, Spellings wrote.

Four groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, issued a statement Thursday saying they’re disappointed that UNC concluded it must follow the new law.