East Tennessee State University has designated gender-neutral restrooms at its Johnson City campus. This comes in the wake of Republican lawmakers chastising the University of Tennessee's Diversity Office for, among other things, an explainer on gender-neutral pronouns. Another controversy -- related to the UT diversity office's advice on Christmas parties -- spurred Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey to indicate ETSU (among others) might benefit from a punitive funding cut to UT.Â