Nepal's first gender-neutral public toilet to be unveiled
by Stephen Gray
23 March 2012, 11:29am
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/23/nepals-first-gender-neutral-public-toilet-to-be-unveiled/Nepal's first openly gay MP has secured the opening of the country's first gender-neutral toilet.
The public convenience, paid for by a Parliamentary Development Fund, will opened next week in the western city of Nepalgunj under the auspices of Sunil Pant.
Mr Pant told
PinkNews.co.uk "I decided to use part of my Parliamentary Development Fund to build the toilet that is "for all", not just for men and women. Toilets and places for praying are simultaneously private and public place, but for those people who don't identify as male or female, accessing these places might mean that they have to reveal an intimately private aspect of their lives to strangers and authorities and still can be denied access.
"This can cause huge amount of stress for "third-genders and/or others" as these places has been build exclusively only for male and female these days in this modern world.
