Sam Bass is the principal at Miraloma Elementary in San Francisco. He’s often talking with parents, and he says he once had a conversation about how some students on the gender spectrum were not comfortable going to the bathroom at Miraloma.
“In fact, one of them was having difficulty so much that he was wetting himself instead of going to the bathroom,” says Bass. “That's just not okay.”
When the school went through renovations, a teacher proposed something new: instead of having “boys” and “girls” single-stall bathrooms, why not make them both “gender neutral”? Bass says it was pretty simple: they just changed the signs. And when people learned to change their language identifying the restrooms, student needs were met.
