University forces students into "dangerous" environments to comply with GOP bathroom billhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/university-forces-students-into-dangerous-environment-to-comply-with-gop-bathroom-bill/ 🔗Faefyx Collington (3 Dec 2025)
Students at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) are being forced out of their current dorm rooms and made to relocate because of a new bathroom ban. While the ban is intended to target trans people, any students sharing a bathroom between their rooms with someone of a different gender assigned at birth are being forcibly rehoused to comply with the new law.
"It's just creating a dangerous environment," Katarina Rendon, a UTSA sophomore lives in a mixed-gender dorm, told KSAT. "Like, you could have a transgender individual who rooms with their friend, and then all of a sudden, they're moved with someone who has violent tendencies towards people like that."
Under the bill, access to restrooms and other facilities in taxpayer funded buildings is required to be limited based on people's gender-assigned at birth. That applies to county and city buildings, state agency buildings, airports managed by the city, public schools, and public universities (including UTSA).
At UTSA, mixed-gender dorms include pairs of rooms that are separated by a shared bathroom in between; often, those rooms might be occupied by people of different genders. Rendon, who identifies as LGBTQ+ but is not trans, emphasized that the system worked and was not endangering anyone: "I have never felt unsafe, my roommate does not feel unsafe."
