WA’s Equal Opportunity Commissioner has highlighted the need for businesses and service providers to audit their bathrooms and changerooms to check if they are accessible for all people. Dr John Byrne says recent media coverage highlighted the discrimination transgender people faced. Writing in the Commission’s regular newsletter Dr Byrne highlighted the controversy around comments made by […]
Attorney General Christian Porter has been asked if Australia needs laws that gives cisgender women exclusive rights to bathrooms and changerooms, and his first answer didn’t rule out the introduction of legislation in this area. When pressed on the issue a spokesperson for his department said it was not under consideration “at this stage”. The […]
Lyle Shelton from the Australian Conservatives has expressed his opposition to gender neutral bathrooms, and decried that some of the people entering the women’s bathroom may not even be wearing dresses. Shelton, who headed the failed ‘No’ campaign against marriage equality, says the AFL’s decision to make several bathrooms at Etihad Stadium gender neutral during […]
The West Australian has printed a political cartoon poking fun at the transgender community and bathroom use. The image, created by long-serving cartoonist Alston, depicts a man telling a woman she is politically incorrect for using a urinal. The woman responds that “it’s LGBTI sanctioned and culturally inclusive… besides, I’m a man!” This is not […]
US President Donald Trump has revoked guidelines implemented by former President Barrack Obama that ordered schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their chosen gender identity. In May 2016 President Obama told schools that transgender students should be allowed to use the bathroom of their chosen gender and threatened to hold back […]
I was desperate to go to the bathroom. So my friend and I, who were enjoying an afternoon of shopping, detoured into a major department store. The male restroom was on the third floor, so we climbed the escalators and headed upstairs. While I went into the toilet, my friend wandered the Manchester section of […]
A school student is the USA has filed a lawsuit against his High School over a series of civil rights violations, among the suggestions from his school is a proposal that trans students wear green armbands so staff can check they are using the approved bathroom. Sixteen year old Ash Whitaker from Wisconsin USA made […]
Recently elected Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that he plans to make the English capital more safe for trans people by introducing gender neutral toilets around the city. Khan campaigned for the position with a raft of LGBTIQ positive policies including promoting HIV and mental health awareness, more job opportunities, more trans-inclusive decision […]
Democratic representatives in North Carolina have filed a bill to repeal the state’s controversial anti-LGBT law known as HB2. HB2, officially named ‘An Act to Provide for Single-sex Multiple Occupancy Bathroom and Changing Facilities in Schools and Public Agencies and to Create Statewide Consistency in Regulation of Employment and Public Accommodations‘, bans local government from […]
Department store giant Target have released a statement in the USA confirming their position on bathroom policy amidst a heated national debate. Target have made it known that transgender staff and shoppers are welcome to use the restroom or fitting room that fits their own gender identity. Some US States, namely Mississippi, Tennessee and North […]
