MMSD adds all-gender bathrooms to every school in district

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In just a few months, every school in Madison will have an all-gender bathroom.

The Madison Metropolitan School District is in the process of adding at least one all-gender bathroom to each school. The bathrooms will be public and available for anyone to use.

Sherie Hohs, an LGBTQ+ social worker with the district said that every gender-neutral bathroom in the district will have a single stall and will be accessible and labeled appropriately with signs. The lock on the doors show whether or not a restroom is vacant.

In order to add the restrooms to the schools, the district has converted existing bathrooms in the schools to serve as all-gender. The project required no major construction or plumbing work. Hohs said that many schools already had single-stall locking restrooms, but the district tried to make the effort consistent in its approach and label.

“It’s really just a restroom just like in your home. We don’t gender our restrooms at home. It’s just a single stall, a place for privacy and, really, I think a lot of us prefer that when we’re using the restroom,” Hohs said.

Hohs said that the district is hoping to be finished with the project in the next month or two.

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