Post by Ayla on Feb 1, 2016 10:56:42 GMT 8
SACRAMENTO — Transgender people may find a bit of relief in a bill being proposed by a California lawmaker Friday that would make all public single-stall restrooms gender neutral.
Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, said AB1732 would require all single-occupancy restrooms in private businesses and government buildings to be “all-gender,” instead of one restroom for men and another for women. Supporters of the bill say it would allow transgender and gender nonconforming people to pee in peace, without verbal or physical threats when they are seen entering a restroom for the gender they identify with.
The bill builds on a restroom access bill signed into law in 2013 that allows transgender K-12 students to use the school restroom corresponding with the gender they identify with.
“The reality is that everyone has to use the bathroom and everyone should be able to use the bathroom without harassment or safety issues,” said Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center. “Earlier in my own transition I had people tell me I was in the wrong bathroom, I had people who very angrily asserted I was in the wrong bathroom.”
www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Lawmaker-pushes-for-all-gender-restrooms-6791567.php
Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, said AB1732 would require all single-occupancy restrooms in private businesses and government buildings to be “all-gender,” instead of one restroom for men and another for women. Supporters of the bill say it would allow transgender and gender nonconforming people to pee in peace, without verbal or physical threats when they are seen entering a restroom for the gender they identify with.
The bill builds on a restroom access bill signed into law in 2013 that allows transgender K-12 students to use the school restroom corresponding with the gender they identify with.
“The reality is that everyone has to use the bathroom and everyone should be able to use the bathroom without harassment or safety issues,” said Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center. “Earlier in my own transition I had people tell me I was in the wrong bathroom, I had people who very angrily asserted I was in the wrong bathroom.”
www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Lawmaker-pushes-for-all-gender-restrooms-6791567.php