The Transgender Commission at the University of Minnesota is hard at work, aiming to increase the number of gender-neutral bathrooms at the university’s Twin Cities campus. Problem is, with the university knee-deep in red ink thanks to Minnesota’s budget problems, $5,000 per restroom renovation (when there are almost 3,000 on campus, and currently only 57 gender-neutral bathrooms), could generate some sticker shock. Luckily, though, many bathrooms need to be updated to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, letting these kinds of renovations be lumped together, increasing the pressure on university authorities to find an accommodation.

For now, the Commission is trying to get the signs on current single-stall, gender-specific bathrooms changed to gender-neutral status.

“The world does not collapse when folks of different genders pee together, but literally everybody just gets to pee,” Remy Corso told the Minnesota Daily. Corso is one of the coordinators of the Commission.

Many transgender students are scared to use gender specific bathrooms for fear of violence or humiliation.

“Some people don’t express their bodies and their genders in the ways other people expect them to … those people still need to pee, though,” said Ross Neely, University of Minnesota Transgender Commission co-coordinator.

Waiting extreme amounts of time to use the restroom because it’s uncomfortable or frightening can have negative health effects, including frequent urinary tract infections and in serious cases, burst bladders, Corso said.