School lifts urinal ban after toilet access debate

MILFORD, New Hampshire (AP) — The New Hampshire School Board has lifted a policy to bar middle and high school students from using urinals after dozens of people protested the measure, which was a compromise to a proposal that would have barred students from using amenities based on their gender identity.

Students at Milford High School and Milford High School continue to be able to use a restroom that “conforms to their gender identity as consistently advocated at the school.”

But at a meeting on Feb. 6, the school board discussed a proposal that would require students to use the toilet and locker room of their birth gender. This proposal upset transgender students, gender nonconforming students and their supporters.

The urinal ban, approved by the board, was proposed as a compromise measure to the proposal. It also limited the maximum capacity of bathrooms and locker rooms to the number of cubicles each has and banned students from using shared locker rooms.

Dozens of students left after a few days.

Milford School District Superintendent Christie Michaud said school officials also received emails and phone calls against the ban, leading to a vote on Wednesday night.

“The board listened to the people,” Michaud told WMUR-TV.

Republicans across the country are pushing anti-transgender law. While New Hampshire bans gender-based discrimination in housing, employment, and public facilities, state legislators are considering a bill that says government agencies are able to “discriminate between male and female in sports, in criminal prisons or in places of solitude. ”

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