Starbucks gender-neutral restrooms: No plans to expand beyond D.C.
October 8, 2010 - 10:30 AM
By Amanda Hess
http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/10/starbucks-gender-neutral-restrooms-no-plans-to-expand-past-d-c--2850.htmlLast week, Starbucks locations across the District of Columbia began the process of making their restrooms gender neutral. Fifty-two District coffee shops will be removing the "Men" and "Women" signs on their single-stall facilities this month in order to comply with gender identity protections in the D.C. Human Rights Act. Bonus: San Franciscans are already jealous of our coffee chain toilets!
"Should've happened here first," declared SFist's Jay Barmann, before congratulating D.C. LGBT activists on the win. "
t's a little surprising this didn't happen in San Francisco first, given that we have one of the largest and most concentrated transgendered populations in the country."
Not really: What San Francisco doesn't have is a law mandating gender-neutral facilities in the city's public accommodations, like coffee shops.
