Access to amenities (transgender)

Transgender and transexual people may face difficulty when trying to access amenities, such as toilets and change rooms, when presenting as their chosen gender.

History

Public toilets

"From Main Article: Toilet"

Gender-separated public toilets are often difficult to negotiate for transgender, gender-variant or androgynous people, who may be subject to embarrassment, harassment, assault or arrest by others offended by the presence of a person they interpret as not being of the same gender (whether due to their outward presentation or their genital status). Transgender people have been arrested for using bathrooms that correspond to their gender of identification, as well as bathrooms that correspond to the sex they were born with. Fact|Feburary07|date=February 2007

Alternatives to gender-segregated toilets

Many existing public toilets are gender-neutral. Some public places, such as facilities targeted to the transgendered or LGBT communities and a handful of universities and offices, provide individual washrooms that are not gender-specified specifically to respond to the concerns of gender-variant people. This remains very rare and often controversial. [cite web |url="http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/36/12/transgender/" |title="Inclusive toilets"] Various courts have ruled on whether transgendered people have the right to use the washroom of their gender of identification. [cite web |url="http://www.herizons.ca/magazine/issues/fal01/" |title="Herizons magazine"]

ee also

* Legal aspects of transsexualism
* Transitioning
* Unisex bathrooms

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