The gender inclusive bathroom at NSCC has been closed for construction. (CBC)

A student at the Nova Scotia Community College is raising concerns about the lack of gender-neutral toilets in the province after renovations at the school have closed his only bathroom option.

Parker Jackson is a student at the Leeds Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College in Halifax. He was born female, but is making the transition to living life as a man.

“If you go into the female washroom you get looks because obviously I look quite male and if you go into the male washroom it's very awkward for me because I don't necessarily have the deep voice or anything like that happening for me yet. So I don't necessarily fit in,” said Jackson.

Jackson said he made use of the single-stall, gender inclusive washrooms at the college until they closed for construction this week.

“I've been getting on the bus and going somewhere that's more safe for me to use the washroom,” Jackson said.

Cybelle Rieber, pride health co-ordinator for the Capital District Health Authority, says transgendered Nova Scotians have been pushed, kicked and threatened in public washrooms.

Parker Jackson says he leaves campus to find a safe bathroom (CBC)

“Imagine going to the bathroom, you just want to pee, and you walk in and someone is like, 'You have to get out of here!', You just have to pee. That's discrimination,” said Rieber.

She said some transgender people choose to wait it out.

“If you can't pee for 12 hours in a day because you don't feel safe, that's a health issue,” Rieber said.

A spokesperson for the Nova Scotia Community College has apologized to Jackson for the oversight.

Marco Digiosia said the two bathrooms will still be gender-neutral once they're refurbished.

"I'd like to apologise. It really breaks my heart to know that someone wasn't able to use the washroom so we'll rectify that,” he said.

Jackson says it's a symptom of a wider issue.

"Bathrooms are really important,” he said.

“If you're human than you have the right to feel safe when you're using the bathroom.”