Cedar Rapids Washington opens ‘privacy restrooms’

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - On Tuesday, Cedar Rapids Washington High School posted a message on their Facebook page stating they had “celebrated another change” in their building.

Washington High School is now offering new gender-neutral privacy restrooms in the north hall of the building. All students may use the restroom, but the school issues a key to unlock them.

The school district did not say this is in response to, but just happens to coincide with the ‘Bathroom Bill’ Reynolds signed into law last week. The bill effectively states that transgender students are not allowed to use a public school restroom in Iowa that does not align with the gender they were assigned at birth.