Refuge Restrooms is a web application that seeks to provide safe restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. Users can search for restrooms by proximity to a search location, add new restroom listings, as well as comment and rate existing listings.
Refuge Restrooms is an app that has the locations of gender neutral bathrooms. You can get the app on Apple and on Google Play! If you have a computer but not a mobile device, you can add a location or look for a location on their website!
You can add locations yourself, so the more people who add a bathroom to the map, the better the map will be. The community has to stick together and help each other out! #WeJustNeedToPee
Allies can help with this app too! You can download the Refugee Restroom app and add locations of gender neutral bathrooms as you encounter them to help trans people who are uncomfortable or unsafe in gendered bathrooms. Remember, family rooms are also gender neutral bathrooms with a different name so include those as well!
Now on to some general bathroom things:
There may not be gender neutral bathrooms for trans teens at school. Or there may be one, but it’s often occupied or far away from your classes. While it’s important to advocate for creating new gender neutral bathrooms at school, progress can take a while to happen especially if your school’s administration is hostile. So here are a few suggestions on getting by in the meantime:
You can sometimes use the nurse’s bathroom, and you can ask the administration for permission to use the staff bathrooms (but they may say no)
Use the bathroom when nobody else is there, so ask to go during class periods instead of during passing time
Ask a supportive friend to come to the bathroom with you
You may be legally able to use the bathroom that aligns with your gender identity and not your axab, but it depends on which state you live in
If you’re in the men’s room, you may want to get an STP
The etiquette for using the women’s / men’s room
Getting used to using the women’s bathroom
Using the men’s room when you have your period
On using the acessible single-stall bathrooms for students with disabilities
Do you have a store or location and you want to change the signage? Here’s a place that sells ADA-compliant All-Gender Restroom Signs, and another one!
If you’re having an event and the venue doesn’t have gender neutral bathrooms, you can print out these signs and tape them over the gendered ones for the duration of your event!
If you work in a school, check out GLSEN’s Model District Policy On Transgender And Gender Nonconforming Students if you’re looking for sample language for a policy.
The simple design solutions that can make bathrooms better—for all genders
How Architects Are Fighting For Gender-Neutral Bathrooms
We Need Gender Neutral Bathrooms Everywhere
This petition for gender neutral bathrooms in a CT school district has some helpful links!
Why The Women’s Restroom Line Is Always Longer Than The Men’s
Now Use Yelp to Find Gender Neutral Restrooms
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