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The right to pee in peace: How do we design a trans-sensitive bathroom?



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Everybody pees and poops. As human beings, we have little choice in the matter, especially if we continue to drink water and eat Kashi cereal.


Even if we can't control our basic need to toilet, we generally have a choice where and how we do it — most of us, that is.


The transgender community wants to make that decision easier and safer. And it could start with redesigning the bathroom sign itself.



When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last June that private companies could withhold certain birth controls from their employee insurance packages under the Affordable Care Act, it caused an uproar among women's rights activists. Many worried the Hobby Lobby decision would also set a precedent for sexual or gender discrimination against LGBTQ individuals. Read more...


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