Preserving Privacy in All-Gender Multi-User and Public Single-User Toilet Facilities
Multi-User toilet facilities designed for use by all regardless of sex:
OFP has seen several recent applications for multi-user toilet facilities designed for use by all persons regardless of sex (aka all-gender; gender-neutral; gender-inclusive; etc.). OFP鈥檚 review of these facilities is limited to their conformance with code and regulations; as such, any approval by OFP should not be construed as an endorsement of this model.
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Additionally, OFP, in consultation with the Office of Counsel and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, will require that such designs preserve one鈥檚 right to privacy for use of the water closet/urinal AND for use of the lavatory (sink) due to a range of privacy needs that students may have related to the use of a sink/washing area. Often times, these plans feature individual stalls with full-height walls and doors; each stall must contain the water closet and the lavatory. Such designs must provide visual privacy; accessibility; ventilation; fire alarm visual notification; emergency lighting; fire rating if required; and required accessories (such as soap dispensers and drying facilities, free menstrual products required by law, and waste receptacles).
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Public Single-User toilet rooms:
OFP will require public single-user toilet rooms to have a door privacy lockset to preserve one's right to privacy for use of the water closet/urinal AND for use of the lavatory (sink). These toilet rooms are commonly the public single-user accessible toilet room(s) in a school building.