Kristopher Sharp
Students at the University of Houston-Downtown will likely have the option of using gender-neutral restrooms by the end of the month.
The proposal passed the student government unanimously on Friday, making it the first university in Texas to have gender-neutral restrooms.
Kristopher Sharp, openly gay student body vice president who spearheaded the proposal, told Dallas Voice on Monday the process to convert two restrooms in each building to gender-neutral facilities should begin as early as next week.
“Ideally we would have this done by the end of January at the latest,” he said.
“This is an important step in UHD’s mission to include diversity and inclusion at the cornerstone of everything that we do,” Sharp wrote in a post on a Facebook group advocating for the restrooms. “With a unanimous passage by our Senate, this truly shows how important this issue is to the UHD community.”