California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring K-12 schools to provide gender-neutral bathrooms by July 2026.
The new law, Senate Bill 760, was among a series of laws signed by Newsom Saturday to expand protections for the state’s LGBTQ community.
“California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and supporting our LGBTQ+ community,” Newsom said in a statement.
Under the law, “each school district, county office of education, and charter school” would be required to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom on campus on or before July 1, 2026. The bathroom must be available for use during school hours and during school functions when students are present, the law states.
I went to a gender neutral restroom in California a couple months ago. Each toilet was in its own little private room, and there was a common area of sinks for hand washing. My only thought was that all public restrooms should be like that. Even apart from the equal access issue for LGBTQ+ people, why make one gender stand in line when there are unused facilities right next door.
Recently went to Paris, and most toilets were like this. It was fantastic.
My only thought was that all public restrooms should be like that.
Agrreed. Sadly, “arrow doesn’t turn”.
Hey, was that at Sino on Santana Row? I almost told the exact same story.
Just wait until conservatives find out there are already gender neutral bathrooms in their own homes!
Oh the horror!
imagine thinking this is an own. Home bathrooms are made for one person at a time.
So are most gender neutral bathrooms at businesses. I bet most of the conservatives don’t care if they are, and if asked would still oppose them on principle (even if they don’t actually notice when they use them at businesses)
Someone doesn’t have kids or a spouse…
Disabled, my favorite gender
Disabled toilets are already gender neutral, I guess they’ll just stick another sign on the door?
only if they’re single-occupant bathrooms. which. for schools… are usually not going to be the case. personally, that should be the solution. just rip out both bathrooms, install single occupant cells. nobody cares what you are. the only sign needed is an ‘occupied’/‘vacant’ on the latch.
(edit: well, you’d still have to have a placard with braille on it so blind people can know what kind of room it is.)
Most of the disabled stalls I’ve encountered (at least in the US) are within the gendered bathrooms. So even if the stall is nominally gender neutral one first has to enter the men’s room or women’s room.
Ah, in the UK the disabled ones are separate and you need a key
Yeah here in the good ol (hahahaha) USA most establishments have a separate “restroom” for men and women which consist of a row of sinks for washing up and a number of stalls for toilets (and urinals in men’s rooms of course).
Sometimes the urinals are just in a row on the wall with no dividers between. But there’s usually one or two disabled stalls as well, although they’re not locked in any way.
and you need a key
Why? It is already so invenient for people without disabilities to somewhere and ask for something, that for disabled it will be nearly-impossible.
Disabled people can buy keys for a couple of quid
Not disable also can. Kinda useless.
It’s not. I have ulcerative colitis and find it very useful.
It really was just a regular bathroom all along.
Can we just have a pee bathroom and a poop bathroom?
it’s heartening that the governor has been working so hard to solve the state’s crippling housing crisis…oh wait…what?
Under the law, “each school district, county office of education, and charter school” would be required to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom on campus on or before July 1, 2026.
Whut?? Why not just make them all human restrooms? How does it takes two+ years to switch some signage and inform people to use whatever door they wish?
I’ve been living in a city with “gender-neutral” restrooms for so long that I forget what it used to be like. Well, aside from sports and entertainment complexes.
Moron politics. They only get shit done that doesn’t really matter for good looks.
Essentially I guess this was needed for redneck morons to know they can use the same bathroom as anyone else because they aren’t extra special…
(This post isn’t anti lgbtq+)
Ah, so more like two years to give
rednecksconservatives a heads up that this is happening. That does make some sense.
Can we adopt the It’s always sunny sign instead?
“Animal Shit House”
“Animal Shit House”
You are correct, humans are not plants, fungi, bacterias or viruses, but what about colorful ponies? Our toilets are unlikely to fit them.
“animal shit house” does not necessarily imply that multiple types of animal use it
Humans are animals, we use the shit house, therefore it is an animal shit house
Important consequence of this in the context of elementary schools: most little boys don’t lift up the seat when they pee and their aim is atrocious. At my kids’ school, the gender neutral bathrooms are the toilets of last resort.
Big port-a-potty in bed with politicians
