Virginia Tech officially opened two more all gender bathrooms on campus Wednesday, one of which took a bit of fighting.

The Squires Student Center sees thousands of students in it every day.

That includes members of the LGBTQ community. But until Wednesday, there wasn't a bathroom they felt comfortable with.

An unofficial student group, Project P, has been working for more gender neutral bathrooms on campus.

One community member named Brian, wished to not give his last name or how he's affiliated with the school.

He said the former women's room on the 3rd floor, in particular, was important to make all gender.

He explained, "Right here, about 20 feet down the hall, we're at the LGBTQ+ Resource Center for Virginia Tech, and up until today there has been no all gender restroom in the Squires Student Center, you had to leave this building and go to another one."

University officials agreed it was important to have bathrooms like the new ones in Squires and the Graduate Life Center and the other single occupancy and gender neutral bathrooms available in about 50 buildings on campus.

University spokesperson Mark Owczarski said on Wednesday, "Today's use of this bathroom in this way really just signals our commitment to being inclusive to all and to the way that all people see themselves and feel about themselves. It's just simply the right thing to do."

Unlike the single use rooms, though, there are four stalls in the bathroom in Squires, meaning people of any gender can be in there with others.

Brian said this all came about after about seven weeks of movements by Project P.

"A group of students got frustrated and decided to protest by taping up paper all gender restroom signs, very similar to the ones now on the doors," he said.

He added, around 1,000 paper signs were hung on every bathroom on the 2nd and 3rd floors as part of the protest.

But the university says this was always the plan. Wednesday's change had nothing to do with protests.

Owczarski explained, "There are building code issues that we have to be mindful of, there are the costs of doing some of the conversions and stuff, really it's a process."

The school changed the signs on the door of the bathroom, but Brian said he and his acquaintances were hoping for more to happen inside the bathroom.

"A lot of people are very interested in, and really want that universally accessible restroom that serves a large number of needs to be present, not only here in Squires, but in buildings across the university," he said.

He also said there will be some people upset with changes like this, but the hope is to see more gender neutral bathrooms across campus.

Owczarski said that will be possible in new buildings.

But with buildings that were constructed with older building codes, it will be harder to make the changes.