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RefugeRestrooms.Org Is A Real Thing And it's Amazing

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RefugeRestrooms.Org Is A Real Thing And it's Amazing
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In the wake of the Trump's administration revoking, the previous President's Obama stance on transgender student's rights. The new stance basically forces transgender students to not use the bathroom that they identify with genderwise, but to use the one they were assigned to at birth. While this is one of the main issues at stake with the recession of President Obama's stance, the implications are endless. Trans students are human, and all humans deserve basic human rights, which includes the right to use the bathroom they feel safest in.

That's where refugerestrooms.org comes in.

This website was specifically created to help students, or transgender people in general, find bathrooms that they feel safe using.

Extreme bonus: It's so easy to use!

Say you want to look at safe restrooms in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Simply type in your search in the search bar and click search.


Bada bing, bada boom, you know have a list of restrooms that are either single stall, gender neutral and more.

But what if you know of more public places where there are safe restrooms?

It's also super simple to add restrooms.

Here's how:

Click "Submit a new Restroom"

It takes you to this form, which while detailed, is still super easy to fill out. You can fill it on a desktop, on a mobile web browser and on the app (which is free on iTunes, not yet released on Google Play).


It took me about 5 minutes to fill it out for the gender neutral bathroom located in Lower Gage here at Coe.

One of the best features is that you can rate the restrooms, with either a "Thumbs Up" or "Thumbs Down" on how well the restroom works (i.e. is it actually safe, located where it's supposed to be, easy to get to etc. etc.).

And that's it!

It's a super great, non-profit website/app, that greatly helps to serve the people of the U.S.! Obviously there are a lot more documented restrooms in larger cities, however, it's our job, as activists, to work on documenting safe restrooms all over the U.S.

If we all work together to protect transgender rights and safety, then we can make real change.

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