{"id":771,"date":"2014-04-08T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=771"},"modified":"2014-04-08T06:56:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T11:56:58","slug":"transwoman-faces-suspension-over-bathroom-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/771","title":{"rendered":"Transwoman Faces Suspension over Bathroom Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Andraya Williams, a 22-year-old transwoman at Central Piedmont Community College (NC), says that she was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/transgender\/2014\/04\/02\/watch-nc-college-security-confronts-trans-student-over-bathroom\">suspended from the school for using the women\u2019s restroom<\/a> until she agrees to use only the school\u2019s gender-neutral restrooms. School spokesman Jeff Lowrance says that technically she hasn\u2019t been suspended. According to Lowrance, much of the campus lacks gender-neutral restrooms. One of the school\u2019s deans demanded that Williams &#8220;bring in medical proof of being a female if she wanted to use the female restroom.&#8221; Williams reported that Leon Matthews, the school\u2019s Office of Equal Opportunity director, \u201ctold me I have &#8216;no rights legally,&#8217; because I am transgender and that if I file a complaint it could &#8216;cost someone a job.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campuspride.org\/campus-pride-calls-central-piedmont-community-college-to-action-for-trans-safety-and-inclusion-protests-sends-message-i-stand-behind-andraya-along-with-demands-for-implementation-of-policies-and\/\">students at her college held a rally to protest Williams\u2019 treatment.<\/a> Signs demanded CPCC take action for transgender inclusion and safety in policies and staff training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andraya Williams, a 22-year-old transwoman at Central Piedmont Community College (NC), says that she was suspended from the school for using the women\u2019s restroom until she agrees to use only the school\u2019s gender-neutral restrooms. School spokesman Jeff Lowrance says that technically she hasn\u2019t been suspended. According to Lowrance, much of the campus lacks gender-neutral restrooms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}