First List Of Top Ten Trans-Friendly Universities

Campus Pride, a nonprofit that works for safer college environments for LGBT students, has compiled its first top ten list of trans-friendly colleges and universities.

Campus Pride’s executive director Shane Windmeyer and trans author Genny Beemyn based their ranking on which schools had policies that were most trans-affirmative, including things like non-discrimination polices that include specific protections for gender identity and/or expression, offering gender-inclusive bathrooms and lockers, forms that allow for the recognition of trans identities and, arguably most importantly, vibrant, dynamic LGBT organizations staffed and lead by members of the trans community.

Here’s how the top ten broke down:

1. Ithaca College

2. New York University

3. Princeton University

4. University of California, Los Angeles

5. University of California, Riverside

6. University of Massachusetts, Amherst

7. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

8. University of Oregon

9. University of Pennsylvania

10. University of Vermont