Tag: transgender
New bathroom finder app locates transgender-friendly facilities
A recently-released online directory will inform transgender people of transgender-friendly bathrooms, reports The Advocate. Known as Refuge Restrooms, the bathroom finder was created by Teagan Widmer, and it draws on an open-source database of more than 4,000 restrooms known to be safe for transgender people. Widmer explained to The Advocate, it’s simply “a web application […]
What’s stopping the spread of gender-neutral restrooms?
While states implement laws to incorporate gender-neutrality in terms of employment and extend support to the LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex and Asexual) community, there are some inequality issues in the public domain that still need to be addressed — for instance, the restroom choice. Conservatives think making restrooms gender-neutral allows sexual predators free access to women’s […]
Austin passes gender-neutral bathroom ordinance
Using public restrooms will no longer bring anxiety to the transgender community in Austin. The city has approved a resolution which requires all single stall public bathrooms to be gender-neutral. The city has become the first in Texas to enact an ordinance that is aimed to address public restroom issues plaguing the transgender community, people with disabilities, and parents […]
Louisville, KY school votes to protect transgender rights
In a first-of-its-kind decision made in just 21 minutes, J.M. Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky put an end to an ongoing debate concerning the plight of transgender students. The school council took a stand by voting in favor of allowing transgender students to use the locker room and restroom of their gender identity. “We […]
Maine court decision on school restroom is a win for transgender rights
Maine Supreme Court’s decision guaranteeing a transgender student the right to use the school bathroom of the gender she identifies with has elicited a positive response from the LGBT community and supporters. In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Court also stated that it was unlawful for school administrators to force the student to use the staff bathroom. […]
Transgender man removed from public pool locker room, sues
A transgender man is suing New York City after he was asked to leave the men’s locker room of a public pool last July, reports Gothamist. Bryan Ellicot, a 24-year-old who is undergoing hormone therapy and who has identified as a man for the last two years, used a public pool locker room in Staten […]
Check out MyDoorSign’s new All-Gender signs
We’ve written extensively on the growing acceptance of all-gender bathrooms, and as awareness has grown, so has the importance of all-gender restroom signs. You may have noticed that we redesigned our all-gender signs (thanks, GLAAD!). We replaced the cisgender-based icon, which social justice activist Sam Killermann criticized, with the simpler imagery he proposed: a toilet. […]
