More states are pushing to stop legally recognizing trans people in public life
Proposed bills would exclude transgender and nonbinary people from updating driver’s licenses, holding public office and accessing public restrooms.
January 24, 2024
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Complex Solutions to Something That Never Was a Problem
The GOP's concern with civil liberties begins at the Second Amendment and ends somewhere near a public restroom.
June 23, 2016
'It's The Women's Room!' and Other Bathroom Trouble
Navigating the social mores of the public restroom when you're not cisgender can be a tricky dance, practiced multiple times a day.
February 7, 2013
Vermont Gov. Signs Gender-Neutral Restroom Bill
All single-user public restrooms in the state must now be marked gender-neutral, a boon to transgender people and others.
May 14, 2018
Florida's New Anti-Trans Rule Threatens Jobs of College Faculty For Bathroom Use
The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday approved new rules strictly enforcing a new law segregating public restroom facilities by gender.
August 23, 2023
Oklahoma Students Sue Over Anti-Trans School Restroom Law
The law, enacted in May, requires public school students to use the restrooms and other facilities designated for the gender they were assigned at birth.
September 9, 2022
California Adopts Groundbreaking All-Gender Restroom Access Law
Beginning in March, all single-occupancy public restrooms in the state must be open to all genders. California is the first state with such a law.
September 29, 2016
N.C. Conservatives Threaten to Repeal Charlotte Trans 'Bathroom Bill' Protections
Conservative lawmakers in North Carolina are threatening to repeal an ordinance that allows trans people to use public restrooms corresponding with their gender identity.
March 18, 2016
Trans Woman Releases Bathroom-Finder App Refuge Restrooms
Meet transgender woman and coder Teagan Widmer, whose latest app, Refuge Restrooms, highlights the importance of providing safe public accommodations for trans people.
February 7, 2014
Trans Folks Can Now Pee Safely in All Federal Buildings
The General Services Administation issued a new rule today that will ensure transgender employees and visitors have access to public restrooms in all federal buildings.
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August 18, 2016
Lawmakers Call Special Session on Charlotte 'Bathroom Bill'
The state legislature, which has the power to overrule municipal laws, is targeting an ordinance allowing transgender people to use the public restrooms matching their gender identity.
March 21, 2016
Fla. OK's Sweeping Anti-LGBTQ+ Rules in Schools After 'Don't Say Gay'
One rule requires public notification about restroom access for transgender students, while another threatens teacher's licenses under the "don't say gay" law.
October 20, 2022
Mother Writes Letter to Man Who Bullied Her Son
After a man chased her son out of a public restroom because he thought the young man was a girl, this blogging parent called out the genderphobic bully in an open letter.
March 19, 2013
I’d Fire the Sex-Positive Weatherman: Is that Wrong and Outdated?
Seeking gay sex has evolved from public restrooms of the past to a metaverse future. Will shifting attitudes toward sexual expression mean the elimination of office code of conduct rules?
September 23, 2022
How you can make bathrooms safer for trans and nonbinary people
Data shows that even in states with trans-friendly policies, transgender and nonbinary people report high rates of harassment in public bathrooms. Advocates say everyday people can have a big impact in interrupting discrimination in gendered restrooms.
March 4, 2024
ACLU Sides With Larry Craig on the Privacy of Public Sex
In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy. Craig, a U.S. senator from Idaho, is asking the Minnesota court of appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct stemming from a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport. The ACLU filed a brief Tuesday supporting Craig. It cited a Minnesota supreme court ruling 38 years ago that found that people who have sex in closed stalls in public restrooms ''have a reasonable expectation of privacy.''
January 17, 2008
A Tale of Two Gay Would-be Mayors
Remember the Fort Lauderdale mayor who wanted to spend $230,000 on a "robo-toilet" to cut down the number of men who have sex with men in public restrooms? His name is Jim Naugle, and after 18 years in office, come spring 2009, the homophobic mayor will bid adieu to City Hall. Two gay men are seeking to take his place and, in aligning themselves with Barack Obama's bid for the White House, hoping to make Florida a blue state in 2008.
October 16, 2008
Utah launches 'snitch line' to report trans people in bathrooms; memes flood In
The move is the latest in a series of states that have tried to launch ways to report transgender issues to authorities; such attempts in other states have not been successful.
May 6, 2024
Utah's bathroom snitch line hasn't found one legitimate complaint out of 12,000
Utah's anti-transgender bathroom snitch line has gotten over 12,000 complaints — only five were investigated, and none turned up anything.
June 20, 2024
Utah Gov. signs anti-trans bathroom bill, which advocates say is 'harassment in the most private of settings'
HB 257 defines a “women’s bathroom” and “men’s bathroom” as spaces exclusively designated for females and males, and includes criminal penalties for those found in violation.
January 31, 2024
Arkansas Seeks to Criminalize Trans People's Restroom Use
Under a bill advancing in the state, they could be charged with misdemeanor sexual indecency with a child in certain circumstances.
March 7, 2023