Inclusive Restroom Design

Comprehensive Analysis of Inclusive & Gender Specific Restrooms in K-12 Schools

Updated December 2020

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.