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The laws in question were about schooling in general, not specifically college. Bullying of trans students in high school is *pretty* pervasive, unfortunately.

This was a few years ago. I remember it because I was arguing about it online, but I don't have links immediately available. That's pretty standard for U.S. anti-discrimination laws, although it's worth pointing out that making something a "protected characteristic" in U.S. law applies in both...

The opposition was very clear: they wanted bullying against every other group to be legally prohibited, but bullying against trans students must remain legal.

Again, they rejected the proposed compromise of a tacitly inclusive general prohibition on bullying, and they *explicitly* said they needed the law to not cover trans students on the basis that it was a dangerous precedent for trans people to have civil rights protections in *any* context...

I think they feel this is the easiest to sell case for the "principle" that trans people should not have civil rights protections of any sort. It's like that anti-bullying bill a few years back which had broad bipartisan support and which the religious right outright said they otherwise...

Mixed rooms are rare (even when allowed, they're generally only by specific request), but mixed dorms are pretty much the norm. Although the context of the argument here has nothing to do with mixed dorms; this is about saying that trans women are not allowed to be housed in women's dorms...