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Transgender and transexual people may face difficulty when trying to access amenities, such as toilets and change rooms when presenting as their chosen gender.
History
Public toilets
From Main Article: Toilet
Gender-separated public toilets are often difficult to negotiate for transgender, gender-variant or androgynous people, who are often subject to embarrassment, harassment, or even assault or arrest by others offended by the presence of a person they interpret as not being of the same gender (whether due to their outward presentation or their genital status). Transgender people have been arrested for using not only bathrooms that correspond to their gender of identification but also ones that correspond to the sex they were born with.
Alternatives to gender-segregated toilets
Many existing public toilets are gender-neutral. Additionally, some public places (such as facilities targeted to the transgendered or LGBT communities, and a few universities and offices) provide individual washrooms that are not gender-specified, specifically in order to respond to the concerns of gender-variant people; but this remains very rare and often controversial. [1] Various courts have ruled on whether transgendered people have the right to use the washroom of their gender of identification. [2]
Arrangements at work
Arrangements at work can be most difficult. Depending on the place you work the circumstances are varied. Working in an environment as in an office might make you use the bathroom suited by your born gender not to offend others. Also the clients of said office may be inclined to complain hereby causing legal proceedings.
Until legal gender remodification, only "unisex" bathrooms are appropriate unless staff bathrooms are available. Again depending on the environment, a bathroom can be designated to be unisex and used by the party involved not to have to "come out" and affect work relations or prejudgment.
Legal issues
Main article: Legal aspects of transsexualism
Transsexuals have faced criminal charges for entering the gendered toilets of the gender they live as.Unverified fact
However, many countries now have statutory or common law protecting the rights of transgendered people.Unverified fact
See also
References
- ↑ "Inclusive toilets", "http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/36/12/transgender/"
- ↑ "Herizons magazine", "http://www.herizons.ca/magazine/issues/fal01/"
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