Achieving gender-neutral bathrooms
Achieving gender-neutral bathrooms
The Issue
Bathroom access might be the most visible battle right now in the wide ranging fight for transgender civil rights, but the issue is more complex than many people realize. Gender-neutral bathrooms are the most inclusive option, bringing health benefits to all, but the very idea of gender-neutral people is hard for many to accept.
Non-binary people are those whose identities are outside the gender binary. They, regardless of their biology or clothing, are neither men nor women, and many use "they" as a singular pronoun instead of "he" or "she."
Some argue that non-binary people should be allowed to choose which bathroom they want to go to, forming a status quo and considered to be a pragmatic solution; however this does not respect the identity of the third option, they may not be comfortable or safe. It has been reported that about 68% of transgender surveys show that respondents were verbally harassed and denied access to gendered bathroom. Since public places today do not legally have to build gendered bathrooms only, why should the non-binaries be treated differently?
Why must they be subjugated to such an extent that they are denied the most basic of human rights? And why do they not have an avenue to report this? Why do they feel scared to use a BATHROOM? The transgender community fights alone, with support from a very few, but are they not human? So what if we differ physically; we all are equally the same, we are humans. Why are lawmakers who do not understand what they're going through making laws for them? This is the very agenda of this petition, to gain equality for the transgender community with the smallest step, a way through which through which the third option can have safe access to their rights, because whoever we are, we are humans and have the same rights.
The Issue
Bathroom access might be the most visible battle right now in the wide ranging fight for transgender civil rights, but the issue is more complex than many people realize. Gender-neutral bathrooms are the most inclusive option, bringing health benefits to all, but the very idea of gender-neutral people is hard for many to accept.
Non-binary people are those whose identities are outside the gender binary. They, regardless of their biology or clothing, are neither men nor women, and many use "they" as a singular pronoun instead of "he" or "she."
Some argue that non-binary people should be allowed to choose which bathroom they want to go to, forming a status quo and considered to be a pragmatic solution; however this does not respect the identity of the third option, they may not be comfortable or safe. It has been reported that about 68% of transgender surveys show that respondents were verbally harassed and denied access to gendered bathroom. Since public places today do not legally have to build gendered bathrooms only, why should the non-binaries be treated differently?
Why must they be subjugated to such an extent that they are denied the most basic of human rights? And why do they not have an avenue to report this? Why do they feel scared to use a BATHROOM? The transgender community fights alone, with support from a very few, but are they not human? So what if we differ physically; we all are equally the same, we are humans. Why are lawmakers who do not understand what they're going through making laws for them? This is the very agenda of this petition, to gain equality for the transgender community with the smallest step, a way through which through which the third option can have safe access to their rights, because whoever we are, we are humans and have the same rights.
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Petition created on 12 October 2019