Photo: AFPThe University of Tours in central-west France has become the first in the country to offer gender-neutral toilets, in an effort to make transgender students feel more comfortable. As well as the new toilets, the university has also announced that starting from this year, it will recognize transgender students’ preferred names on their student ID cards, university email addresses, and on class registers. In France, legal name changes are often a long and complex process, which means many transgender students have a legal name which does not match their gender identity or outward appearance. The decision comes a year after a student asked the faculty to do more to accommodate transgender students. So far, gender-neutral toilets have been installed in the medical faculty with more set to be introduced across the entire campus, though gendered toilets will remain available as well, the university said.

Source: The Local September 14, 2017 13:18 UTC