Public toilets

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One nonbinary person's ideal public toilet situation; symbols representing facilities rather than permitted genders.

Public toilets are a potentially dysphoric issue with nonbinary people, as restrooms for able-bodied people are often assigned to male and female, with little to no provision for people who don't fit the gender binary.

Resources

How to find nonbinary public toilets, and how to handle situations where genderfree toilets aren't available.

• Refuge Restrooms is a replacement for Safe2pee. It also has an iOS app available.
• Safe2pee is a crowdsourced world map of public toilets that are genderfree and/or accessible. There is an iPhone app that uses the information so that you can find places when you're out and about, called Transquat.

Commentary on public toilets and gender

• Go Where? is an article on the gendering of public toilets, looking into the visual symbols and what they say about language and public perception of gender.
• "Renaming the bathrooms: A cruel trick for queer ends," by androgyne Raphael Carter regarding a practical joke.

See also

• Changing rooms
• Swimming pools
• Practical resources