Inclusive Restroom Design
Comprehensive Analysis of Inclusive & Gender Specific Restrooms in K-12 Schools
Updated December 2020
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The design of public restrooms has long been a contested
territory for civil rights issues and policy debates of the time.
Currently, segregated facilities, which were created to prevent
discrimination on the basis of gender, are increasingly coming
under scrutiny by the LGBTQ community, as they fail to
recognize the non-binary nature of gender and create social
difficulties for members of the transgender community.
While ongoing conversations and laws continue to evolve
at the state and federal levels, very little data regarding the
implementation and logistics of inclusive bathrooms, or
bathrooms which are non-gender specific, exist at the K-12
level. In much of the United States, school districts recognize
the issue but do not have the information readily available to
address it.