Students Activism with Gender Neutrality

Many articles featured students’ activism with issues surrounding gender neutrality. Students and youth commissions in Rochester, Minnesota are advocating for their school district to install more gender-neutral restrooms. Rochester Public Schools is trying to make an exception to their state’s code in order for gender-neutral restrooms to be more easily installed. Students at the University of Idaho are advocating for more gender-neutral bathrooms and for menstrual products to be placed in all bathrooms. The Senator of the Associated Students of University of Idaho stated, “I would like to get menstrual products into all women’s, gender neutral and men’s restrooms in order to be accommodating to our LGBTQA+ community. I’m working with Senator Will Jansen Van Beek on creating more gender-neutral bathrooms and the first initiative we are going to start with is getting those products into those gender-neutral bathrooms…This is a program that we want to expand for inclusion and diversity.”

After students advocating for gender-neutral housing, the University of Florida is currently designing it’s first gender-neutral housing option, named the Marsha P. Johnson Living Learning Community, in order for LGBTQ+ students to have a safe space.