Pitt Broadening Policy

The University of Pittsburgh is broadening its anti-discrimination policy to include the way people express their gender identity through their clothes and appearance.
The vice president of the university's Rainbow Alliance, which advocates for homosexual, bisexual and transgender students, says the changes extends that policy to "anyone whose gender identity does not match their assigned sex at birth." Rainbow Alliance vice president Kelly Coburn says that would include people whose wardrobe or appearance "isn't what most people would expect of their sex." A university spokesman says the new policy will also apply to university housing assignments. The university's anti-discrimination already covers sexual orientation.