NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Many of the 700,000 Americans who identify as transgender often face discrimination when using public bathrooms. MyDoorSign.com has released new gender-inclusive bathroom signs to ensure that people of all identities can access restrooms.
The new signs help alleviate the distress that transgender citizens may endure while choosing the public facility best for them. Along with male and female symbols, the signs feature different symbolic representations to show inclusivity. Inspired by a sign from the Parsons School of Designs, the sign’s language reads, “Anyone can use this restroom, regardless of your gender identity or expression.”
The issue of restroom access for transgender people is a hotly debated issue. In recent weeks, Arizona Representative John Kavanagh proposed a bill that prohibited people from entering public restrooms, showers, dressing rooms, or lockers if the designated sex of the facility did not match the biological gender on their birth certificate. The bill is still currently being contested. An Idaho transgender woman was cited for trespassing for using a female bathroom in a grocery store.
Psychotherapist Jean Malpas, the Director of the Gender and Family Project for the Ackerman Institute for the Family, gave insight into the public inclusion of gender-inclusive bathroom signs. “I noticed that the ‘The Modern,’ the restaurant attached to the Museum of Modern Art, had an all gender bathroom, and nobody, younger and older, male and female patrons, seemed to mind at all.”
Regarding the signage, Malpas favors a gender-inclusive representation. “The point is that gender depends on one’s identity, and not on the sex they were born in or assigned at birth.”
To view the signs, visit http://www.mydoorsign.com/
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SmartSign is one of America's fastest growing e-commerce companies and parent of MyDoorSign, MyParkingSign, and more than 50 other sites. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of signs, tags, mats, and labels. By positioning “signs as solutions,” SmartSign has taken a novel approach to ordering signs. Through creating highly targeted, content-rich, and authoritative retail sites, the company provides specific solutions to specific problems, such as providing equal access for restrooms.