Public toilets

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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.

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

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