California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring K-12 schools to provide gender-neutral bathrooms by July 2026.

The new law, Senate Bill 760, was among a series of laws signed by Newsom Saturday to expand protections for the state’s LGBTQ community.

“California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and supporting our LGBTQ+ community,” Newsom said in a statement.

Under the law, “each school district, county office of education, and charter school” would be required to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom on campus on or before July 1, 2026. The bathroom must be available for use during school hours and during school functions when students are present, the law states.

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    So there will stil be regular male/female toilets? In the end I’m kinda whatever about this as long as it’s not used as an excuse to remove urinals.

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      Yes, every gender neutral bathroom I’ve seen here at elementary schools and college campuses have single occupancy gender neutral bathroom/s next to the men’s and women’s bathrooms.

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      I haven’t read the text of the law, but unless it explicitly says otherwise, I suspect it will be up to the schools/districts. If they have the money and room to build separate non-gendered bathrooms, then some of them will do so. But I suspect that most will simply convert existing bathrooms and not have gender specific bathrooms at all.

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      Every gender neutral bathroom I’ve been in has removed the urinals. It’s fucking annoying.

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        Yeah that’s what my comment is about. Just removing stuff until you end up at the common (worst) denominator is the worst kind of equality.

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      stares in confusion But urinals are the absolute worst. Benefits: cost less money and less space. Drawbacks: lack of privacy and inevitable splashback. Why would you want them?

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        So I don’t have to sit on a public toilet of questionable cleanliness. A small bit of splashback from my own piss is preferable.

        The privacy just has never been a concern bc no one is trying to look at other people’s dicks while pissing.

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          If you can use a urinal, you can piss in a toilet without sitting down.

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            …which has all the same splashback issues except youre much more likely to have some piss spray in sone random spot outside the bowl

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        Urinals are more convenient when you just need to take a quick piss. I don’t get why another person next to you is a problem. Also just don’t piss dead center into the thing considering splashback. Do I really have to explain pissing now?

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          Urinals offer exactly zero additional convenience, and there is no splashback-free angle.

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            What using urinals offer:

            • don’t need to close a door
            • don’t need to touch the seat to lift/lower it
            • takes up much less space than toilets
            • can chat with the bros

            There is much less splash using a urinal than standing at a toilet. You’re doing something very wrong if it’s splashing all over the place (how tf?).

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              Basic physics. Toilets have zero splash because gravity exists. Urinals have maximum splash due to conservation of momentum.