The primary goal of Refuge Restrooms is to provide safe restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals while traveling within the United States. We leverage a user generated/rated database of thousands of restrooms across the country to find safe and inclusive restrooms for transgender people.
We also support looking up accessible and parent friendly (changing table) restrooms.
You can search for restrooms by proximity to your search location or search for restrooms at a specific zip-code if you want to investigate safe restroom access before you travel.
What's the motivation to build a restroom searching skill? One of the biggest battlefields upon which the fight for transgender rights is taking place daily are restrooms. It seems that every other week a transgender child is made the center of a national news story because they used the restroom assigned to the gender they identify with. Obviously, every transgender person should have the right to use the restroom they want to. However, we also realize that despite legislative victories in recent years regarding restroom usage, many transgender individuals still face both verbal and physical harassment simply for using the restroom. Nobody should have to face that - and that is why this skill exists.
Why support searching for accessible and parent friendly restrooms? While our primary focus has been and will be providing safe restroom access to transgender individuals, we also realize that disabled people and parents traveling with kids do face a similar problem around finding restrooms that meet their needs. For that reason, we extended the skill to also support searching for accessible restrooms and restrooms with changing tables.
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