all-gender

In California the whole family can share the restroom at the same time.

Via Mercury News:

Forget the men’s room and the women’s room. Gender will no longer matter when using single-stall public bathrooms in California.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed legislation that will require restrooms for single users to be designated all-gender, California’s latest move to bolster transgender rights even as much of the country moves in the opposite direction.

“California is charting a new course for equality,” said Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “Restricting access to single-user restrooms by gender defies common sense and disproportionately burdens the LGBT community, women, and parents or caretakers of dependents of the opposite gender.”

In signing Assembly Bill 1732, Brown vindicated activists who have made the right to use bathrooms matching their gender identities a new front in LGBT politics.

California has continued down that path even as elected officials in other states, notably North Carolina, have moved to block transgender people from using the bathroom they are most comfortable using.

“We now have a policy that gives everyone greater privacy and safety in public restrooms. It — and not hateful laws in North Carolina, Mississippi and elsewhere — should be the model for the nation,” Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur said in a statement.

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