Using a public restroom is rarely a joyous occasion. They’re filled with sights and smells that can strike fear in the hardest of hearts (and stomachs), and still, most of us have to venture into them ...

The author hiking just outside Yosemite National Park in July 2024, after cutting their hair short, holding their pink hat. Courtesy Rey Katz “Hello? Are you a male or female in there?” a rumbling ...

Every time a person uses the bathroom, they probably grab their phone before closing the door. In fact, most people feel like they can't function properly unless they have their phone by their side, ...

This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. In Trump’s new America, bathrooms have become politicized battlegrounds. What may have seemed like ...

“Hello? Are you a male or female in there?” a rumbling voice called into the women’s restroom. A man’s boots stepped across the threshold, clunking on the tile floor, as I sat alone in the stall ...

An immigrant rights group is calling on Ann Arbor to ban federal immigration agents from city facilities after a recent ...

Lucien Bates, a transgender man, says security guards threatened to arrest him after he used the women’s restroom at a Round1 arcade inside the North Riverside Park Mall in suburban Chicago. Bates, an ...