Starbucks restrooms in D.C. go gender-neutral for trans customers
October 1, 2010 - 10:15 AM
By Amanda Hess
http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/10/starbucks-restrooms-in-d-c-go-gender-neutral-2536.html (http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/10/starbucks-restrooms-in-d-c-go-gender-neutral-2536.html)
Starting Monday, local Starbucks locations will begin swapping out the "Men's" and "Women's" bathroom signs on each of the coffee chain's restroom facilities inside the District of Columbia. Within a month, all 52 of D.C.'s Starbucks single-stall bathrooms will be gender-neutral.
The switch comes after campaigning efforts by local LGBT groups the DC Trans Coalition and the DC Center, who are pushing all local businesses to comply with a little-known regulation in D.C. law ensuring that all public restrooms are equally accessible to transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
That's great and all but I just go in the woman's room. I don't really worry about going in the woman's room. Actually I would feel totally out of place in the men's room. The one nice thing about the gender neutral bathrooms is that the line for the woman's room will go by a little quicker but I don't look forward to listening to the men's complaints that the line for the old men's room is now longer. :)
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