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.
Can we just have a pee bathroom and a poop bathroom?
Disabled toilets are already gender neutral, I guess they’ll just stick another sign on the door?
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
So much of the online bathroom discussion makes more sense when one realises that US public restroom designs are insane.
It turns out, California is not part of the UK and your experience isn’t relevant.
Are you always a dick, or just Tuesdays?
i never really got the whole separated toilets thing anyway, it’s a toilet, do your thing and skedaddle
we need to redesign toilet stalls to be more private anyways
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.
So there will stil be regular male/female toilets? In the end I’m kinda whatever about this as long as it’s not used as an excuse to remove urinals.
Do you have a urinal in your house?
Just jumping in to say my grandfather did. Not a popular fixture, but you always can add one.
stares in confusion But urinals are the absolute worst. Benefits: cost less money and less space. Drawbacks: lack of privacy and inevitable splashback. Why would you want them?
Urinals are more convenient when you just need to take a quick piss. I don’t get why another person next to you is a problem. Also just don’t piss dead center into the thing considering splashback. Do I really have to explain pissing now?
Urinals offer exactly zero additional convenience, and there is no splashback-free angle.
What using urinals offer:
- don’t need to close a door
- don’t need to touch the seat to lift/lower it
- takes up much less space than toilets
- can chat with the bros
There is much less splash using a urinal than standing at a toilet. You’re doing something very wrong if it’s splashing all over the place (how tf?).
Basic physics. Toilets have zero splash because gravity exists. Urinals have maximum splash due to conservation of momentum.
It really was just a regular bathroom all along.
The gender neutral bathroom was inside here the whole time.
Disabled, my favorite gender
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.
They may want to allow time for remodeling instead of just new signage. Maybe better stalls for actual privacy. I hate the typical stall I see in the US.
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.
Ah yes the four genders: woman, man, oh my god what the fuck happened to you, now youre disabled
So glad he’s focusing on the things that really matter.
Yes, it does matter. A positive and safe environment for students is imperative for them to learn. That includes trans and non-binary students.
I agree, except without the sarcasm.
