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A partially-selective school's decision to convert a girls' bathroom into a unisex toilet block has left parents concerned after a reported 'behavioural incident'.
Prestigious co-ed Brisbane State High School recently converted its P Block of female-only toilets to accommodate for either sex.
Since then, male students have been accused of intimidating female classmates outside the unisex block and urinating over toilet seats and sanitary bins, the Courier Mail reported.
The decision to change the bathroom's gender restrictions is required by the state's Department of Education and Queensland Human Rights Commission.
The commission has ordered schools to have a specific proportion of both gender specific and unisex toilets.
A prestigious co-ed school, Brisbane State High School (pictured), have come under fire for suddenly changing some girl's toilets to unisex this week
An email notifying parents of the change said the toilets are 'now a shared space and should be treated with respect by all students using the facility'.
One parent said female students were no longer entering the bathrooms.
'You have boys using those cubicles that were
