Public bathrooms are gender identity battlefields. What if we just do it right? | Simona Castricum

Is using the toilet really about binary ideas of male and female? Or is it about amenity and function?

Signing bathrooms by the amenity they provide – rather than the gender they are deemed to be used by – is one great leap towards removing the gender binary from public spaces.

While this idea remains a challenge to people invested in maintaining traditional gender roles, the positive reinforcement of gender-neutral language and pronouns works with designs for lived experiences of gender that exist outside the male and female binary.

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