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Gender Neutral Restroom Sign, Baby Wale Restaurant DC Flikr. This story was reported by the  American Media Institute . Goodbye to the urinal? In many places, a gender-neutral revolution in bathroom design is afoot. Born in the offices of architects, the design upheaval is quieter than the noisy public debate over gender bathroom equality , but designers are clearly bending to political winds and client demand. Public space is being changed for generations to come. New designs without gender labels are already showing up around the country. The Fourth, a restaurant in New York City’s East Village, has only a single restroom , featuring three private, floor-to-ceiling stalls labeled “unisex,” three labeled “women” and one for the handicapped. All are accessed through a common door. The Fourth has no dedicated men’s room. Other private buildings in New York that feature all- gender restrooms include the Whitney Museum , relocated to a new Renzo Piano-designed structure last year in ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Lawyers for transgender teen Gavin Grimm have set aside part of his case against the Gloucester County Public Schools . After spending years fighting all the way to the Supreme Court, Grimm’s lawyers filed to drop the appeal seeking an immediate end to the district's bathroom policy . This comes after judges with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled that the 18-year-old may not be able to pursue the case anymore since he graduated high school in June. The ACLU said Grimm's decision now clears the way for them to litigate his case based on Title IX discrimination . Grimm was born a female, but has identified as male since his freshman year in high school. According to court documents, Grimm used the boys’ restrooms at the school for approximately seven weeks without incident. However, after some adults in the community complained, the Gloucester County School Board overruled its administrators and enacted a new policy prohibiting boys and g...

In both a post by the editors and an op-ed piece by Frank Bruni, the New York Times dismisses the concerns about transgendered men putting demands on policies that require keeping the sexes separate in public. To start, the editorial quotes a sheriff from South Carolina who says it’s a non-issue. “In the 41 years I have been in law enforcement in South Carolina, I have never heard of a transgender person attacking or otherwise bothering someone in a restroom,” Sheriff Lott wrote in a letter to the committee studying the state’s bathroom bill. “This is a non-issue.” Wrong.  Perhaps the editors and the sheriff would like to view a twenty- minute video offering case after case  of the sort of sexual predators for whom the transgender laws will serve as a green light.  One big bruiser, dressed in a curly old lady wig, a pink sweater, and a flowered skirt, walked into a facility, and when a woman challenged him, he sucker-punched her and knocked five teeth out.  The video sp...

Politics, it has been said, makes strange bedfellows ; and what could be stranger than an alliance of Christian pro-family activists and radical feminists? Yet that is precisely what has occurred in response to the Obama administration’s attempt to force schools to open up sex- segregated private spaces to “transgender” individuals. The Family Policy Alliance (FPA), a public- policy partner of Focus on the Family, has joined with the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), which describes itself as “a radical feminist organization dedicated to the total liberation of women,” to oppose the administration’s “ bathroom policy .” That policy, articulated last year in directives from the Justice and Education Departments, requires schools that receive federal funding under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to allow individuals identifying as transgender to use the bathrooms, locker rooms, and other sex-segregated facilities of their choice, regardless of their biological sex. Schoo...

We may miss the nasty vulgarities that the pivoting Donald Trump is said to be leaving behind. Now we’re stuck with the bathroom bills — and Trump’s comment that people should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate.” So: the mighty-handed Trump, whose wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command beats back Mexican rapists , Muslim terrorists, and black murderers, is — let’s not beat around the bysshe — shrinking like a shriveling shrinking thing before the NewYorkTimesie pushers of gender-neutral bathrooms and showers for high-school kids. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! The bathroom bills , which push back against this latest insanity, bring to mind Randall Jarrell ’s quip in “Pictures from an Institution”: “You have to see it not to believe it.” What astounds is that transgender people aren ’t just interested in bathrooms qua bathrooms (as they probably say in the tony gender-free aeries of progressive liberalism). What they want is to destroy convention itself. Not just ...

PIERRE | The lone South Dakota Democrat running for governor said Friday that measures restricting which facilities transgender students can use at school amount to "a solution in search of a problem." Sen. Billie Sutton opposed a so- called bathroom bill when it was proposed during the 2016 legislative session. He said in a statement to The Associated Press that local schools have been handling the issue in the best way for their students, a view shared by term- limited Republican Gov . Dennis Daugaard but one that diverges from the top two Republicans vying to replace him. Sutton pointed to the "catastrophic" economic consequences of passing such a measure. A similar law in North Carolina sparked national uproar and costly boycotts before lawmakers rolled much of it back. " South Dakota prides itself on common sense, and laws like this are a solution in search of a problem," the Burke legislator said in the statement. A key conservative group , Fam...

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus NewsGender, Politics - U.S. Wed Aug 16, 2017 - 5:09 pm EST bathroom policy , greg abbott , joe straus , texas , texas legislature August 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Texas Privacy Act (SB3) — designed to keep biological men out of women’s public restrooms and locker rooms in the state — likely will not become law this year. Its main Republican opponent , House Speaker Joe Straus , suddenly ended the Special Session called by Gov. Greg Abbott to pass it and other conservative bills. Strauss, an ally of pro- LGBT big business interests , reportedly overrode the procedural objections of conservative House members in abruptly closing down the 30- day Special Session late Tuesday , more than a day early. “The reports are true: Many members were loudly objecting/calling for a [recorded] vote on Sine Die Motion [permanent adjournment] & were intentionally ignored,” tweeted conservative State Rep . Jeff Leach. Gov. Abbott slammed the House and Straus fo...

'Bathroom Bill' on agenda for Special Session in Texas. AUSTIN - With three days left in the Texas Legislature Special Session , Texans, organizations, and lawmakers are continuing to speak out on the bathroom bill.  The two bills filed during the Special Session related to bathroom privacy are Senate Bill 3 (SB3) and House Bill 46 (HB46). SB3 requires people in state, city and county buildings and public and charter schools use multiple occupancy bathrooms , locker rooms and showers according to the sex on their birth certificate or state- issued identification card or CHL. HB46 states cities , counties and school districts can't create and enforce their own policies regarding the use of multiple occupancy restrooms , showers and locker rooms. It makes no mention of gender or sex.   Several civil rights groups gathered at the Capitol Monday to deliver to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House a list of signatures from more than 50,000 Texans who...

Share This Publication June 20, 2017 Texas leaders have a month to get ready for the state's special session -- and a new University of Texas poll is giving them plenty to think about while they do. Turns out, House Speaker Joe Straus is in the minority when he says the privacy act doesn 't matter. "There's no evidence of a problem," he said March. "We will always have public debate, but this is not an issue that rises to a level of extreme importance." Tell that to Lone Star State voters , who think the gender debate matters a lot more than they did in February. The University of Texas/Texas Tribune polled voters and found that 44 percent of all locals think the topic is important, including 57 percent of Republicans. That may not sound like a lot, but it's a significant jump over the last few months, analysts point out. "Lt. Governor Dan Patrick led the charge in... making it more salient to Republicans," said Jim Henson, who...