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Go ahead and point out at any time where that was said by anyone but you.
You've somehow gotten it into your head that I'm anti-trans, or supporting anti-trans, which is stupid. I'm a civil rights activist. I advocate for people's rights--and I understand that you don't "give" people rights. You have to make people realize who think that group of people don't have rights that they actually do. And you can't get to that point by saying "your rights don't matter here" and letting universities do the same.
For you to have rights, xenophobics and transphobics have to have rights. For you to express your opinion, you have to be willing to let the xenophobics and transphobics have their pullpit, too. That's the way it works. You are free to say "their opinion doesn't matter!" but you're not winning any hearts and minds and least of all not winning any court cases with that attitude.
Every single reply I've had in this thread is an emotional response because people seem to be under the very mistaken impression that I'm anti-trans or advocating for anti-trans rhetoric, and that's simply not true. I'm advocating for all rights, not just trans rights. People are empowered by the constitution to be racist in the same way they're empowered by the constitution to be trans. You don't get to pick and choose and that's always--literally 100% of the time--worth pointing out. Ultimately it needs to be up to the students to be okay with trans or not be okay with trans. Institutions shouldn't be involved at all.
That's the reasonable discourse of a democracy.
This was you, a university has no right to segregate students based on race. Full stop. It doesn't matter what the student body wants.
The paradox of tolerance. Do some reading.