Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Yelp Supports Gender-Neutral Restrooms

In response to the current government's transphobic policies, Yelp is introducing a new feature which indicates whether businesses have a gender-neutral restroom of the single-stall variety.  They don't seem to be tracking family restrooms yet, but anything is progress.  I'm pleased to see something akin to the Find Dottie! and Dottie Spotter apps from T-America.
Tags: activism, gender studies, news
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March 7 2017, 20:30:47 UTC 4 years ago

Seems almost counterproductive for Yelp's purposes, given that so many of the small independent businesses Yelp admittedly down-rates *do* have single bathrooms for single users, and so many of the corporations Yelp overtly favors have invested heavily in big multi-user bathrooms.

(Data point: Up to age ten or twelve I was psychosomatically but genuinely sickened by multi-user bathrooms, and wouldn't go into the ones at school even if I had to be sent home in a disgraceful condition as a result. The principal was my least favorite relative; the principal's office was where kids were sent to beg to be sent home; once, faced with a limited choice of where to be mortified by swine flu, I'm told I opened the nearest door and spewed virus onto the *boys'* bathroom floor. I didn't look!)