A group of junior high students break down barriers by insisting that their school needed an everyone washroom.

“An “everyone washroom” is a gender-neutral space that’s open to anyone regardless of gender identity or expression. Through the eyes of the youth, the concept of a gender-neutral washroom has always been easy to understand.

“It’s just a bathroom to me, if you got-to-go you got-to-go,” said Jessie Homes, an eighth grader GSA member.

But having a gender-neutral washroom makes a huge difference for transgendered or gender-questioning people. And the GSA students wanted an “everyone washroom” to support a transgendered student.”

How does the idea of breaking down barriers relate to opportunities to participate? What barriers do you see?

MacLean A. (June 24, 2016). North End Junior High breaks down barriers with ‘everyone washroom’.