Transgender rights: The fight for gender-neutral toilets

New York college is latest institution to abandon Male and Female signs on doors

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Public toilets have become a key battleground in the fight for transgender rights, especially in the US.

Many trans people say conventional bathrooms force them to choose between suffering verbal accusations and insults in the female toilets or sexual harassment or assault in the male toilets.

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