Cornell Funds ‘Gender Affirming Repository Of Clothing’ For Trans Students

Cornell University funds a “Life Transitions Closet,” which provides students with “gender-affirming clothes,” according to the university’s website.

Five “mini-grants” amounting to $1,000 each are awarded each year from the university’s Belonging At Cornell grant program.

“QGrads (LGBTQ+ Graduate Student Association) and Trans Empowerment Programming at the LGBT Resource Center will collaborate to offer a donation-based community closet with gender-affirming clothes to queer, trans, and non-binary students who are going through a transitory period of gender identity and expression,” the university website reads.

“There’s plenty of people who, for any number of reasons, can’t get a hold of a wardrobe they feel fits them,” Zhang told the Cornell Sun.