Letters to the editor: DHS needs unisex bathrooms

To the Editor,
Thank you for your article about the lack of gender-neutral or unisex
bathrooms at DHS; it is an issue that should be brought to people’s attention.
I personally do not identify as completely male or female, which makes using public bathrooms psychologically difficult. Generally I ask to be excused from class to use the bathroom so that the bathroom will hopefully be empty; or at lunch I walk to the public library, where I feel safe using either bathroom and I don’t worry about stares or violence, as I do at DHS.
I’m an intruder in either bathroom, and often I just hold it all day. I deal with this every place I go that has public bathrooms.
Because of how much thought and effort is required whenever I need to use a public bathroom, and because of my non-binary gender
identity, there is much more I could say.
However, I’ll finish this letter by agreeing that, considering how much time I, and other students, spend at school, at least one unisex bathroom being installed would make my life—and the life of students in similar situations—much easier.
— Laura Aptekar-Cassels, junior

 
This letter was in response to: School must create safe environment for students