Ste Anne school adding gender-neutral washroom

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Ste Anne Collegiate is in the process of converting a staff washroom into a gender-neutral restroom to accommodate students uncomfortable with the current male and female washrooms.

Principal Yvan St. Vincent said the school has informed the two students who identified a preference for this facility last spring that it made one available.

He said the school is “60 to 70 percent” toward formally promoting that a gender-neutral washroom is available. The washroom is locked and you need a key to get inside.

St. Vincent said once this was flagged as a concern by the school’s gay-straight alliance they moved to remedy it.

“Student voice has kind of been the impetus for this,” he said.

Seine River School Division superintendent Mike Borgfjord said a member of the division’s three gay-straight alliances—in Ste Anne, Lorette and St Norbert—brought up transgender washrooms when speaking to trustees several months ago.

The topic affirmed to trustees that this is something to consider, although there was no mandatory order made to establish gender-neutral washrooms at any school.

“The board wanted to make sure that our schools do whatever we can to make kids comfortable,” said Borgfjord.

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