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A Resource Guide For Transgender Activists And Allies

A Publication of the Transgender Law Center

Copyright 2005, Transgender Law Center

 

 

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Chapter One

 

A. Introduction 1 B. Language and Definitions 2 C. Historical Bathroom Activism 3 D. The Problem 3 E. Legal Landscape 4 F. Women and Children’s Safety 4

Chapter Two

 

A. Preventing Harassment 6 B. Harassment, Assault and Questioning 8 C. Handling Harassment 9 D. Assault In Bathrooms 9 E. Security Guards and Police Officer 10

Chapter Three

 

A. Changing Bathrooms 12 B. Potential Ideas 12 C. Changing Individual Bathrooms 15 D. Building a Safe Bathroom Grassroots Organization 18 E. Creating a Safe Bathroom Campaign 22

Appendix

 

A. Sample Leers 28 B. Sample Groups Structure 30 C. Legal Information 37 D. Resources 39

 

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 Support for this publication provided by individual donors to the Safe Bathroom Access Campaign and People in Search of Safe Restrooms and the following foundations: Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund The Funding Exchange Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation Open Society Institute Unitarian Universalist Funding Program The Vanguard Foundation Thanks also to Rae Greiner, Natali Smith (grassroots organizing input), Yu Tong (graphic design), Olivia Edith (original artwork) and members of PISSR. End of chapter quotes are from the San Francisco Human Rights Commission Gender Neutral Bathroom Survey, 2002.