Victoria’s Youth Parliament Passes Gender-Neutral Toilets Bill
Young Victorians have shown their support for mandatory gender-neutral bathrooms in all public buildings this week. A Bill calling for the banning of all gendered signage on public bathrooms, passed through the YMCA Victorian Youth Parliament – a yearly forum of 120 young people advocating for issues important to them, 19-13. The Positives The students had spent months planning and drafting the bill, which was the result of one of their classmates being unable to use the only unisex toilet in the school, after it was turned into a teachers’ bathroom.That moment proved to be a tipping point for the student Chloe Wrzesinski, who is non-binary, and five of their schoolmates.