Gender Neutral Bathroom Resources
Safe2pee aside, there are many are other queer bathroom resources out there. Something we should add? Let us know!
Organizations
- PISSR (Gone, but archived) – san francisco gender neutral bathrooms
- Boston Relief Map (Gone, but archived)
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- Transgender Law Center
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
- Intersex Society of North America
- Trans Can Scan – Gender Neutral Bathrooms in Vancouver, BC area
- Toil/Art – Bathroom Mapping and Education from the Trans Melbourne Gender Project
Research /Guide
- SF HRC Gender Neutral Bathroom Study
- Toilet Training – Activist and Educator Guide
- Safe Bathroom Access Campaign
- Peeing in Peace – Guide for activists and allies
College / University
- PISSAR – UCSB, cool site, great info on accessibility!
- NYU- gender neutral bathroom list
- Vassar – Gender Neutral Bathroom List
- U of Texas – Austin – bathroom list
- U Chicago – Queer Action, great info
- MIT – Trans@MIT , bathroom and other campus resources
- University of Michigan – Bathroom list (includes unisex locations)
- Michigan State University -Unisex / Accessible Bathroom List
- University of Washington – QCenter, Awesome google maps style listing
Cool Queer Sites
- Queer Things To Do In San Francisco – Larry-bob’s san francisco (and beyond) events list
- Queer Kit – Queer art, music and culture
- Homo-A-Go-Go – Queer arts and music festival. 2007 will be in LA
Bathroom Related
- Bathroom Diaries – another bathroom directory, though intended for travelers, and not specifically gender neutral.
- AU Public Bathrooms – A public bathroom site created by the Austrailian Government
- MizPee – A cellphone based service. Not specifically gender neutral.
April 11, 2007 at 10:46 pm
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Thanks,
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May 4, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Here is my issue.
As a woman with disabilities, I take issue with the fact that most “converted” bathrooms were first created for people who have no choice but to use those bathrooms. The reason has to do with the design of them. The rails, which allow one to pull one off their chair or lower themselves slowly, the heightened seat which again allows for easier movement from chair to toilet and back. The counter and sink which is created to allow a person in a chair to use it with ease since it again is set at the right height with space underneath.
It was these fought victories that liberated many people and allowed then not to be wearing diapers because the washrooms at the time could not provide proper usage, which I now see being taken away. Yet now we see them being converted for use for people who are very able bodied, who can walk up a flight of stairs, have no spinal issues which make it that much more difficult in waiting for that able bodied person to exit
Don’t get me wrong I believe if someone feels they are neither gender then I can see how being forced to use one label to be uncomfortable. This tends not to apply to those of us who are transexual and fought for years to be recognised as ourselves.. Yes as well as being disabled physically I am also a transexed woman, so I have had to live that fear of beginning to use the bathroom which reflected my core gender identity, before my disability became severe. I understand the concerns of attack, harassment and possible police intervention. But like so many before me and after me, I survived and do use female washrooms when pain levels allow.
So back to my point.
I believe if there needs to be genderless bathrooms, they need to be newly created and not be the ones that were created to specifically support less able bodied persons. That means stalls not specifically created to support that other group of us that were never asked our opinion on the matter.
Thank You
May 23, 2007 at 7:50 pm
hey folks,
This site is a really great idea, but is there any way it could be made world-wide? I live in Ireland, and there a quite a few places I can think of that could be included here. I had to find them by trial and error, but it would be great if people didn’t have to do that. Or is there somewhere else for England/Europe where I can get this information?
May 29, 2007 at 1:38 pm
There are two groups of “people’s rooms” that you might want to add.
First, every Target store with a pharmacy has a gender-free bathroom near the pharmacy. Sometimes it’s not labeled as a bathroom, but you can ask at the counter; you’ll never be asked to buy something (except possibly in Manhattan and the like).
Second, most Florida highway rest areas have “family restrooms”. In some cases, the restrooms are in two buildings joined by a roof over a common area, and the family restroom is set into the women’s building; people perceived as male may get odd looks when walking toward that building, and people in the family restroom can hear and be heard by the people in the women’s restroom. (So if you take a call on a cell phone, and your voice is perceived as male, you may alarm some people.)
May 29, 2007 at 1:42 pm
…and by the way, since many of those rest areas belong more to a highway than to a city or town, I’d suggest two changes: first, the ability to give GPS coordinates for a restroom, and second, a way of listing genderfree restrooms near major highways. People planning a road trip from Key West to New Orleans, for example, might want to print out and bring lists of genderfree restrooms on “Florida’s Turnpike”, “I-75: Florida”, “I-10: Florida”, “I-10: Alabama”, “I-10: Mississippi”, and “I-10: Louisiana”.
August 19, 2007 at 2:59 am
Je m’excuse de ne pas être tres a l’aise avec votre langue mais si vous n’êtes pas a l’aise avec la mienne, on est quitte
Et moi qui croyait être un Grand génie en ayant l’idée de toilettes mixte, je crois que j’me suis foutu le doigt dans l’oeil
Alors voila quelques graphiques appuyant votre démarche:
http://opti72.deviantart.com/art/Toilette-57119600
http://opti72.deviantart.com/art/mvsf-57125911
http://opti72.deviantart.com/art/mtaime-57275566
August 30, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Does anyone know where I could get some signs for the restroom that indicate that it is:
a- gender-free
b- accessible for people with disabilities
Without using weird binary/ablist symbols such as:
a- skirtgirl and pantsboy with the binary line down the middle
b- a wheelchair
Thanks!
October 22, 2007 at 1:05 pm
10/22
When I tried to click “Accessibility” from the Add page, I got a
404 error. I’m using Mozilla.
Didn’t know where else to “report” this.
Saw an article in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, so will add quite
a few that we have here at the University of Illinois at Chicago
(as distinct from University of Chicago).
October 26, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Let me second the highway idea. I was going to add a bathroom that is on I-95 north of Baltimore, MD, but I can’t find the name of the city the rest stop is located in. Even the state’s highway department lists it by county.
But really, I don’t think anyone would search for the name of that county, they’d be searching for a bathroom on that highway in that state.
Just a suggestion, keep up the good work.
December 20, 2007 at 4:33 pm
very interesting. i’m adding in RSS Reader
January 31, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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February 6, 2008 at 7:46 pm
There may be copyright issue, but the Vindigo (http://www.vindigo.com) product has bathroom listing for some of the cities they support. It started in NYC, so that’s where they have the best coverage (568). If it’s not cool to dump their listing, maybe you could get them to sponsor your site with a free license to their data.
February 19, 2008 at 4:19 pm
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April 20, 2008 at 1:07 am
hey im jeremiah williamson and i went to the buger king in union square in san francisco and i was told to go to the mens restroom i refused so he got a security guard to tell me to go in the mens line. i said no and did not want to. i told him there is no law preventing me a gender queer person to do so. He still told me so i had to go and went in the mens and didnt feel comfortable doing so. So after telling them this isnt the last to here from me i said. i went to the LGBT center on market and got a 50 page law penal code to tell them i have a right to go in there. i went and showed them that to the manager and still he told me i couldnt!
what can i do after this?
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