West Virginia’s Marshall University has introduced a “Trans Closet,” to their campus this year and it's being met with incredible support from the student body. Basically, the closet is a space where transgender and non-binary students at the school can access gently used clothes without financial — or judgemental — constraints. The closet is comprised of donated clothing from fellow-students and the local community. It’s run by the school’s LGBTQ+ Office and as reported by NBC, it’s one of many transgender accommodating closets sprouting up at college campuses across the country.

“We started the trans clothing drive so our students who were particularly trans or transitioning could have a space to come and try on the clothing for free in a private, comfortable yet welcoming space, and not have that fear of having people talk about them or getting the murmurs or stares,” Marshall University’s LGBTQ+ Office Director Shaunte Polk told NBC. “We don’t want anyone to feel left out or not included.”

The Trans Closet started with a clothing drive last year. Now, it holds about 1,500 pieces which are organized by season and size. Next, the LGBTQ+ Office is raising money to purchase chest binders for the university’s trans male students.

Similarly, LGBTQ resource centers at colleges across the country, including Kennesaw State University, Rowan University, the University of California and Pennsylvania State University, have opened closets.

It’s something Shane Windmeyer, the founder, and executive director of Campus Pride — a nonprofit geared towards LGBTQ students’ safety — says is a game changer.

“What we find is that there are students who are transitioning who lose support from their families, and they have to drop out of school,” Windmeyer told NBC. As noted by the news outlet, over 80 percent of LGBTQ students pay for school themselves versus the 53 percent of students that don’t identify as LGBTQ, according to the Point Foundation.

Rowan College’s Gender Affirming Clothes Closet can attest to that.

“The purpose of this service is to alleviate the often heavy financial burden of transitioning or coming out,” a statement on the closet’s website said.

And while these programs may be new to college campuses, the concept has been going on for years.

The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico has operated a donation based closet for a decade, according to its website.

“We’ve been serving the community because we know how important safe, judgment-free access to clothes that align with who you are can be,” the resource center posted on its Facebook page. “[The university closet concept] is a great idea for campuses that we hope will catch on (and we are happy to help with!).”

The University of California, Santa Cruz’s closet opened in 2016 according to the school’s Queer Resource Center Director, Travis Becker.

“For me, that was an opportunity to really think about the way in which the Cantu Queer Resource Center could be a space that reimagined itself to really meet some of these basic needs for our students,” he told NBC. He said the closet has evolved from a safe space into a runway when students pull together looks. “I live for those moments … There’s something particularly moving about seeing a trans woman try on her first skirt.”

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