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Students from the University of Victoria show that different genders can use the same washroom in the Student Union Building. Two washrooms are open as multi-stall gender inclusive facilities.
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Men, women, transgendered – it’s all the same for washroom privileges at the University of Victoria Student Union Building. Two formerly gendered washrooms in the SUB have opened as multi-stall gender inclusive facilities, allowing all people to share the same space. “We’re doing this in order to create safe spaces for everyone, because everyone deserves to go to the washroom without fear of harassment or discrimination,” said Emily Rogers, chairperson of the UVic Students’ Society. The washrooms, which opened a as gender inclusive space last Wednesday, now have a picture of a toilet on the door rather than a symbol of a male or female. UVic is the first campus on the Island to adopt the multi-stall
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