San Francisco elementary school removes boys' and girls' bathrooms and makes them gender neutral
- The elementary school is trying to accommodate young students who don't fit into gender norms
- Ari Braverman, 6, likes to dress like a girl and is happy about the gender neutral bathrooms
- School principal says parents have been supportive
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One elementary
school had decided to do away with boys' and girls' bathrooms. There will now
just be bathrooms.
Miraloma Elementary
in San Francisco, California is busy doing away with its gender assigned
bathrooms and making them gender neutral for their young students.
Principal Sam Bass
said the change was in part due to eight students who do not fit into
traditional gender norms - and range from tomboys to transgender.
The school began
removing the circles, triangles and stick-figure signs from restrooms at the
start of this school year, according to SF Gate.
The bathrooms in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms at Miraloma, as well as a centralized bathroom, are gender-neutral.
The school will
phase in the other restrooms used by older children over the next few years,
including outside bathrooms with multiple stalls.
'There’s no need to
make them gender-specific anymore,' said the principal, adding that the parents
of the students have been supportive.
He said one parent
told him, 'So you're making it like it is at home.'
A 2013 California law requires schools to
allow students to use the bathroom consistent with the gender the child
identifies with, a policy San Francisco passed 10 years ago.
'I think most people
don’t think about how difficult it can be, going to the bathroom for someone
like my son,' said a woman named Jae, who refused to give her last name to
protect her son.
Her son, a
first-grader, is a boy who identifies as a boy but prefers to dress and style
his hair like a girl.
'He was just
struggling with it quietly,' the mom added. '[Now] he can just use the restroom
without thinking about it.'
Ari Braverman, 6, says he too is happy about the bathroom change since he likes to dress like a girl and doesn't discriminate between boys' and girls' toys.
'I think it’s nice
because then people don’t have to be separated just to go into bathrooms,' Ari
said. 'It’s just easier to go to the bathroom if there’s just a bathroom.'
Ari's dad, Gedalia
Braverman, agreed, saying, 'As parents, you eventually realize it’s not your
job to change your child’s personality. It’s not my job to identify and
pigeonhole my children’s genders, and certainly it’s not the school’s.'
Kevin Gogan, the district’s director of safety and wellness, said that one percent of the district's children identify as transgender, meaning about 300 students.
He said gender
neutral bathrooms are a way of accommodating and protecting them.
But bathroom
neutrality isn't welcomed everywhere.
On Monday, almost
200 high school students walked out of class in Hillsboro High School outside
of St. Louis, Missouri to protest the use of the girls’ restrooms and locker
room by Lila Perry, a transgender teen, according to the New York Times.
For transgenders, issue of which bathroom to use isn't relegated to schools.
In a recent episode
of I Am Cait, the most famous transgender woman in the country, Caitlyn Jenner,
65, revealed she is stressed out about which locker room to use at her
country club, and put the her former name, Bruce, on her application to avoid
the issue.
'I'll worry about
the locker rooms later on down the line,' she said.
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