{"id":14632,"date":"2017-09-20T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14632"},"modified":"2017-09-22T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:15:55","slug":"multi-stall-all-gender-washrooms-on-the-horizon-for-camosun-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/09\/20\/multi-stall-all-gender-washrooms-on-the-horizon-for-camosun-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-stall all-gender washrooms on the horizon for Camosun College"},"content":{"rendered":"

More all-gender washrooms are coming to Camosun College. Camosun associate director of facilities services Brian Calvert says that while the college just has single-stall all-gender washrooms right now, it\u2019s looking at ways to add multi-stall all-gender washrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the new health building there will be a multi-stall all-gender washroom,\u201d he says. \u201cIn addition, all floors will have an all-gender washroom in it as well. It will be a bit of a trial but it will give us a better idea of how it works. If things are working well, there\u2019s a possibility that, if funds allow that, we will convert other washrooms around both campuses later on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were kind of limited by our infrastructure as to building new washrooms. For example, we can\u2019t turn a women\u2019s washroom into an all-gender one,\u201d Calvert says. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a costly project and the plan was to implement this so we could address the all-gender community and support that. We took what we have and we\u2019ve tried to make the most of it to help address some of these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The all-gender washroom located in Camosun\u2019s Richmond House (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are currently a number of single-stall washrooms on both campuses that have been converted to be all-gender. Calvert says the main thing that allowed the college to convert these washrooms was that many of the single-stall washrooms were previously bathrooms for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny of the single-stall washrooms that were previously for disabled use, we basically converted,\u201d he says. \u201cThose are the ones that we are monitoring to see if we need to solve any problems. We\u2019ve had it in the past where we had a student that couldn\u2019t use a particular washroom so we added some lifts on both campuses. We\u2019re constantly looking to make all the washrooms as accessible as possible for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun College Student Society external executive Rachael Grant says that while multi-stall washrooms would be nice, certain procedures would need to be enacted to make sure that everyone feels safe using the washroom. She also says that having both gendered and all-gendered washrooms is the way to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that as long as the college still has gendered washrooms, there are plenty of washrooms overall, and the college does have the capacity to cater to everyone\u2019s needs,\u201d says Grant. \u201cThere are a variety of needs that students have when it comes to accessing washrooms safely. A mixture of all-gender washrooms and gendered washrooms is an ideal scenario, and what Camosun\u2019s currently doing is a good start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant says it comes down to\u00a0 making sure that all-gender washrooms are abundant; she says that if a student had to cross campus just to find an all-gender washroom, that wouldn\u2019t be a good environment for Camosun to put people in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key point is that there needs to be all-gender washrooms as frequently as possible. In an ideal world each building would have multiple all-gender washrooms available on different floors,\u201d says Grant. \u201cA student shouldn\u2019t have to go across campus to use the washroom. I\u2019m pleased to see that Camosun is moving ahead on their project and is adding more constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second-year applied linguistics student Shayan Bueno says that Camosun adding more all-gender washrooms is a good thing, and says that it would be ideal if the college added more to major buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s cool that the college is being inclusive of everyone\u2019s identities,\u201d says Bueno. \u201cI\u2019d probably like to see them add more to the Young Building and the Fisher Building, because that\u2019s where most people go for classes at the Lansdowne campus. Overall, I think it\u2019s a good thing they\u2019re doing, though.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More all-gender washrooms are coming to Camosun College. Camosun associate director of facilities services Brian Calvert says that while the college just has single-stall all-gender washrooms right now, it\u2019s looking at ways to add multi-stall all-gender washrooms. \u201cIn the new health building there will be a multi-stall all-gender washroom,\u201d he says. \u201cIn addition, all floors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-september-20-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14636,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions\/14636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}