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adventures of a non-binary little awesome trans*person in a binary world.
adventures of a non-binary little awesome trans*person in a binary world.
MAKE FACEBOOK INCLUDE GENDER NEUTRAL PRONOUNS
Listen up peeps, facebook currently erases the identity of non-binary individuals by forcing them to use either a male of female pronoun. PETITION THEM TO CHANGE THIS.
REBLOG!
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Australia endorses gender choice
Australian judges have ruled that people do not have to be registered as a man or a woman on the register of births, deaths and marriages.
Things I've Learned From Writing Under A Gender-Neutral Name
But the comment I get more often than any other is people questioning my gender — which I often don’t make explicit.
Transgender Restroom Signs - All Gender Bathroom Signs
Transgender Restroom Signs help mark the restrooms for everyone, including transgender people. Available in 16 colors with universal Mens and Womens pictos.
One time for a party I made a different sort of universal bathroom sign. (It was a reference to an old Far Side cartoon that I can never find when someone asks me to.)
I love fluffy’s bathroom sign!
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Gender-neutral? Harrods' new Toy Kingdom tries to end boy-girl divide
London department store organises new multi-sensory toy zone by theme rather than sexThis happened last year. AWESOME!
Reblogged from Unique and Equal
US: Philadelphia Mayor to sign landmark LGBT protection bill into law
“The Mayor of the US city of Philadelphia is to sign a city-wide ordinance offering protections, and benefits for LGBT citizens into law, in a ceremony on Thursday.”Go read the whole article
It’s not just focusing on gay and lesbian partnership rights anymore
I mean look at this
“It will make city forms gender neutral, and makes it easier for transgender residents to request gender markers on some records, and name changes. Gender-neutral bathrooms are also required in city-controlled buildings, as well as access to buildings based on gender identity.
“Healthcare discrimination against non-union transgender city employees will also be banned, and the legislation ensures that employees in Philadelphia will be able to dress in accordance with their gender identity.”
No one’s ever cared before and now it is just like “here is a windfall of unexpectedly amazing things now go live your life in happiness”
Reblogged from nifty things
Will Philadelphia Introduce Gender-Neutral Bathrooms?
A Philadelphia city councilman has sponsored a bill that would require newly constructed or renovated city-owned buildings to have gender-neutral bathrooms in addition to men’s and women’s restrooms, as the Philadelphia Daily News notes.
This is why I think it’s completely reasonable and achievable to enact gender-neutral bathroom ordinances in the entire country:
The act wouldn’t cost Philadelphia additional money because the city already requires single-use wheelchair-accessible bathrooms in all of its buildings, according to Rue Landau, executive director of Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.
If buildings are already required to provide wheelchair-accessible restrooms, why not require these to be gender-neutral? In fact, I think it would be a relief for more than just trans* people.
Gender-neutral bill does away with 'freshmen,' 'penmanship'
Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed off on the final installment of a six-year effort to make language in the state’s copious laws gender-neutral.
Toca Boca’s Apps: The Best iPad Games for Kids?
I hoped that the apps’ homely themes were all part of a plan. So I met with Toca Boca’s C.E.O.
“It was a very intentional design decision: we don’t make toys for boys, we don’t make toys for girls, we make toys for kids.
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“Everybody doesn’t want to buy a princess app; maybe they are only buying them because that’s what’s available.”
On UNC's Gender-Neutral Housing
Recently the UNC Board of Trustees approved a gender-nonspecific housing pilot program the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This would involve setting aside 32 on campus housing units as gender-nonspecific. According to Terri Phoenix, the Director of the LGBTQ Center at UNC-CH, these unit represent about one-third of one percent of the total on campus housing.
“It’s an issue of student safety,” Dr. Phoenix told me. “Gender-specific housing is where students report the fourth highest incidence of harassment.” Gender-nonspecific housing may be new for UNC, but it has been tested at a number of institutions and is quickly becoming accepted as a standard best practice. According to Dr. Phoenix, seven of UNC’s 15 peer institutions already provide some form of gender-nonspecific housing.
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So what’s the issue? A bipartisan group of North Carolina State Senators has introduced legislation that would ban UNC from providing gender-nonspecific housing. Senate Bill 658 is being sponsored by Senator Ben Clarke (D-Cumberland), Senator Chad Barefoot, (R-Wake), and Senator David Curtis, (R-Lincoln); 658 would ban any form of gender-nonspecific housing.
Senator Curtis claimed in a new release that “the purpose of this bill is to help the UNC system regain its focus on the core mission of educating young people and helping them find meaningful employment in our state. UNC did not become a national leader in academics by wasting time and tax dollars on frivolous social experiments.”
Gender neutral bathrooms! Safe spaces for ALL!! #qpocc #queerpeopleofcolorconference #genderqueer
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Philadelphia introduces LGBT reform bill with sweeping trans inclusion measures
Philadelphia City Councilman Jim Kenney has introduced a bill that will dramatically increase protections for LGBT people in the city, but especially transgender people.
The measure was originally meant to add on to Philadelphia’s existing domestic-partner laws, but the new bill also includes provisions mandating gender-neutral bathrooms, banning discrimination based on gender identity and expression, and giving extra support to companies who offer health benefits for employees’ domestic partners.
The legislation mandates that any new building constructed by the city must include gender-neutral bathrooms and that gender-neutral bathrooms be established at current city properties when bathroom renovations are undertaken.
One year from its passage, the legislation would require all new city forms to be gender-neutral, except under special circumstances, such as if the gender designations are required by state or federal law.
The city’s Fair Practices Ordinance, which enforces the LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination law, would be amended to specifically prohibit employers from failing to permit employees to dress in accordance with their gender identity. The public-accommodations section of the law would also be changed to ban entities from refusing or denying “any person access to any separate-gender bathroom where the person’s gender identity is consistent with the gender for which such bathroom is reserved.”Zam, this is all incredibly impressive. As the article notes, the last big milestone is addressing trans discrimination in health care, but the way Philly’s going, that hopefully won’t be too far off.
Proud to have lived in Philly, though sad I never discovered it was truly another LGBTQ trans* oasis until I left.
Reblogged from GayWrites.
Do Gender-Neutral Gifts Still Elude Parents?
Sure, if your son asks for a doll, you’d buy one (I did). The question is, what will you buy him if he doesn’t ask?
