(FOX 32) – The Eastern Lancaster County School District voted Monday to initiate an ambitious renovation plan to create non-gender specific facilities at its high school in place of traditional gender-specific locker rooms. Board members unanimously passed policy 253 on Monday night, the first student day of the 2019-2020 school year. The $2.4 million renovation plan for Garden Spot High School includes the design of four “zones” that will hold a total of 48 private changing rooms and 76 private showers, Lancaster Online reported. Because each of the showers will be private, they can also double as changing rooms, making a total of 124 changing rooms under the new plan.
“This District policy states that multi-user locker rooms and restrooms will be separated based on biological sex. But the idea behind the policy is much deeper,” the board wrote in a statement regarding the new measure. “We’ve worked hard to arrive at a solution that balances varied interests – which is why we’re systematically converting multi-user facilities into a series of single-user facilities.” Starting at the beginning of the school year, there will be 13 single-user restrooms, which will be available to all students for any reason — no special permission required. READ MORE
