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California governor signs law requiring gender-neutral bathrooms in schools by 2026

www.cnn.com California governor signs law requiring gender-neutral bathrooms in schools by 2026 | CNN

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.

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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.

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- Honestly, I just like the privacy anyways. Who wants to make eye contact with someone through the 1in gap in the stall doors?
  
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  It's how I've met my firmest friends.
  
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- Yeah it’s literally just better for everyone
  
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  Except for those who desperately want to hurt people they don't like.
  
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- Recently went to Paris, and most toilets were like this. It was fantastic.
  
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- My only thought was that all public restrooms should be like that.
  
  Agrreed. Sadly, "arrow doesn't turn".
  
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- I am passionate about gendered bathrooms. Sorry ladies, you take far too long to pee.
  
  /s
  
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  Combined bathrooms but keep the piss trough.
  
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- 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
  
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- Hey, was that at Sino on Santana Row? I almost told the exact same story.
  
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Just wait until conservatives find out there are already gender neutral bathrooms in their own homes!

Oh the horror!

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- That’s the trick about “gender neutral bathrooms” - they’re just a normal bathroom.
  
  Some businesses have had them for years. Ever been to a place where you just use the room that’s unoccupied? Congratulations! You’ve used a gender neutral bathroom.
  
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- imagine thinking this is an own. Home bathrooms are made for one person at a time.
  
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  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)
  
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  Someone doesn't have kids or a spouse...
  
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  Doesn't stop me and my siblings from crossing streams in one toilet. Though it is harder for our sister.
  
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i never really got the whole separated toilets thing anyway, it's a toilet, do your thing and skedaddle

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- My biggest reason for wanting separate bathrooms is the propensity for women to squat and spray the seat. I know guys can make a mess too but usually the women's restroom is dirtier than men's. Also women's restroom is more likely to have a line.
  
  But I'm sure building-wise it would be easier to just make one big bathroom so it should probably be that way, long as it's big enough.
  
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  In areas with lots of people it's also about efficiency. Single stall toilets don't work at a train station. A better option is to have two toilets .. one with urinal and one without. Use whichever one you want.
  
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  How do you have experience with both men and women's restrooms?
  
  Edit: ow the downvotes
  
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- You mean you don't have signs up in your house for your guests to direct them to entirely different bathrooms?
  
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- because females don't like going to the bathroom around men? Not really hard to understand
  
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  Make all toilets more private than thin sheets of wood with an inch wide gap between them and it shouldn't be a problem.
  
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  Yah, this is not the men making this an issue. I couldn't give a fuck if woman walks into the mens room, I'm here pissing and I'm not going to worry about anyone looking. Gods help you if it went the other way, you'd end up on a list.
  
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  I'm not sure why you're receiving down votes. It's simple as that.
  
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Disabled, my favorite gender

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- 🥱
  
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Disabled toilets are already gender neutral, I guess they'll just stick another sign on the door?

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- 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.)
  
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- 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.
  
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  Ah, in the UK the disabled ones are separate and you need a key
  
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It really was just a regular bathroom all along.

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- The gender neutral bathroom was inside here the whole time.
  
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Can we just have a pee bathroom and a poop bathroom?

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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.

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- 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.
  
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- 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+)
  
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  Ah, so more like two years to give ~~rednecks~~ conservatives a heads up that this is happening. That does make some sense.
  
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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.

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Can we adopt the It's always sunny sign instead?

"Animal Shit House"

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- "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.
  
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  "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
  
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- Good reddit joke.
  
  You're so funny.
  
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it’s heartening that the governor has been working so hard to solve the state’s crippling housing crisis…oh wait…what?

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- People can do more than one thing at a time. Did no one ever tell you about this?
  
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Big port-a-potty in bed with politicians

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Ah yes the four genders: woman, man, oh my god what the fuck happened to you, now youre disabled

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