Media.www.DailyEmerald.com – By Mike O’Brien – News Reporter
New gender-neutral changing facilities help the rec center welcome the entire campus population
Every January, gyms all over the country fill up as millions of Americans lift, run, spin and stretch in keeping with their New Year’s resolutions. But within weeks, many of them will be gone, never to break a sweat until the sun is back in Capricorn.
According to a 2005 National Center for Health Statistics study, 62 percent of Americans don’t exercise regularly and up until recently, Jazz McGinnis was one of those people.
For McGinnis, a University senior studying sociology, skipping workouts wasn’t an act of laziness. As a transgender male, he avoided the gym to avoid the locker room.