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.
Yeah it’s literally just better for everyone
Except for those who desperately want to hurt people they don’t like.
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”.
I’ve heard some women say they feel unsafe and uncomfortable with men there. Sounds a bit ridic to me but maybe I just don’t understand
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!
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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…
Or a dog
Can you teach my dog how to flush. Thanks.
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
So much of the online bathroom discussion makes more sense when one realises that US public restroom designs are insane.
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.
Do you know you can just buy those keys online?
I didn’t know this for years. So handy.
But be careful as people will ask staff for the key and open it on you haha
Wow I would have thought it would at least have a regular deadbolt from the inside in addition to the external lock.
Also typing this comment makes me realise it’s a little weird to externally lock public toilets in the first place. But I know we can’t have nice things.
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 turns out, California is not part of the UK and your experience isn’t relevant.
Are you always a dick, or just Tuesdays?
It really was just a regular bathroom all along.
The gender neutral bathroom was inside here the whole time.
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.
Yes, every gender neutral bathroom I’ve seen here at elementary schools and college campuses have single occupancy gender neutral bathroom/s next to the men’s and women’s bathrooms.
I haven’t read the text of the law, but unless it explicitly says otherwise, I suspect it will be up to the schools/districts. If they have the money and room to build separate non-gendered bathrooms, then some of them will do so. But I suspect that most will simply convert existing bathrooms and not have gender specific bathrooms at all.
if all the bathrooms are neutral there’s no need to have " regular bathrooms"
Every gender neutral bathroom I’ve been in has removed the urinals. It’s fucking annoying.
Yeah that’s what my comment is about. Just removing stuff until you end up at the common (worst) denominator is the worst kind of equality.
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?
So I don’t have to sit on a public toilet of questionable cleanliness. A small bit of splashback from my own piss is preferable.
The privacy just has never been a concern bc no one is trying to look at other people’s dicks while pissing.
If you can use a urinal, you can piss in a toilet without sitting down.
…which has all the same splashback issues except youre much more likely to have some piss spray in sone random spot outside the bowl
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?
Also you can put a wall between urinals
Yes, it’s not rocket science.
Rocket science isn’t hard either
Urinals offer exactly zero additional convenience, and there is no splashback-free angle.
You are doing something wrong. Urinals are designed to not have splashback.
No, they aren’t. They’re designed to be cheap, not effective.
I really don’t know why we have to have this conversation right now.
Sorry to break it to you, but I guess you suck at taking a piss lol.
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.
Can we just have a pee bathroom and a poop bathroom?
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.
it’s heartening that the governor has been working so hard to solve the state’s crippling housing crisis…oh wait…what?
People can do more than one thing at a time. Did no one ever tell you about this?
Big port-a-potty in bed with politicians
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.
well we know where your values stand on the subject
Like preventing discrimination because I can’t think of anything more important
I agree, except without the sarcasm.
I know, right?
Where are the imvestigations into the jewish space lasers already??
