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disability-can-be · 1 year

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[ID: A large accessible restroom with an adult-sized powered changing table and a toilet with handrails.]

This is actually super cool, random Iowa rest stop! Now just throw a sharps container in there and you'll have it down.

#disability #accessible restroom

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bannerhouse-printing123 · 10 months

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Banner House is a leading supplier of high quality Safety Signs. Disability Signs help people with disabilities feel safe and comfortable in your establishment.

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incognitopolls · 3 months

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about the bathroom #submitted nov 25 #polls about etiquette #accessibility #accommodations #public restrooms

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coochiequeens · 1 year

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Women’s sports is not a retirement plan for old men

A 50-year-old trans-identified male runner has seized his eighth championship title in a women’s category after smashing the competition at the Italian Indoor Masters Championship in Ancona.

On March 12, Valentina Petrillo, born Fabrizio, competed in the 200m race for women aged 50 to 54. Marco Alciator, a statistician, was present at the championship to monitor Petrillo’s performance and provided a report to the Italian Feminist Post on what he witnessed.

Alciator recorded that that a difference in ��physicality [was] immediately noticeable,” and that the female competitors were unable to hold their own against Petrillo, who effortlessly dominated the competition.

But Petrillo’s prowess in women’s athletic competitions is hardly praiseworthy, says Alciator, who notes that if Petrillo had been competing in the equivalent men’s race, he wouldn’t have even broken the top 10.

“Were it not for the fact that Petrillo is still unbelievably entitled to compete in the women’s category, he would have finished 14th place in the M50 category.”

Following Petrillo’s victory, the female athlete who came in second place expressed that she felt disappointed in the results. Cristina Sanulli would have come in first place, and set a women’s indoor running record, if not for Petrillo.

“We do not feel equal, precisely because [Petrillo’s] physical structure is male,” Sanulli said to Alciator. “So we are not running at par. Although the [personal] path Valentina has taken is respectable… athletically speaking it is not, and because of this we feel very discriminated against.”

At the end of the race, a spectator could be heard shouting, “Brava, Cristina!” a cheer that received applause from other athletes. This show of support for Sanulli enraged Petrillo, Alciator says, who then shouted several times in response: “Dedicated to all those who want to hurt me!”

Leading up to the latest race, a women’s rights advocacy group called RadFem Italia contacted government officials to ensure that Petrillo would not be granted access to the women’s locker rooms. In response, Petrillo was provided with a designated changing room reserved especially for him at the Italian Masters Championships in Ancona.

On March 16, Petrillo again lashed out in a Facebook post wherein he equated criticism of his presence in women’s sports to Nazism, telling detractors they were “on the same level as Hitler,” and comparing sex-based sports categories to a 1936 ban on Jewish athletes.

Upset at being denied the use of the women’s locker room, Petrillo wrote, “In Ancona, you made me have a terrible time, it is not fair… you’ve relegated me to a ‘dedicated’ locker room,” a situation which he claimed was similar to the segregation of those called appestati, or sufferers of a plague.

A number of female athletes and professional experts have been highlighting concerns about Petrillo’s participation in the women’s category. At the Master’s Athletics Championships in Arezzo in October 2020,

Petrillo outpaced Sanulli and Denise Neumann, both of whom had previously won world and European Masters titles and have been regarded as the best in their events.

The athletes took the podium with Petrillo at the time to avoid becoming embroiled in controversy, but later stated that they felt that Petrillo had an unfair advantage.

“I didn’t feel like I competed as an equal. It was my race, my goal for the season. I had been preparing it for a long time and I wanted to win,” Sanulli said at the time.

Sanulli and Neumann were among more than 30 female Master athletes who signed a petition in 2021 opposing men being permitted to identify into women’s sports.

The women were represented by Italian lawyer and athletics champion Mariuccia Fausta Quilleri, who claimed that the admission of male athletes in women’s competitions constitutes a violation of Article 1 of the Code of Equal Opportunities between Men and Women. The petition was sent to the president of the Italian Athletics Federation, Stefano Mei, the Minister for Equal Opportunities, Elena Bonetti, and the undersecretary of state for sport, Valentina Vezzali. According to RadFem Italia, their efforts were not acknowledged by the government officials.

Petrillo currently holds 8 women’s running championship titles, but failed to earn even one while competing as a male. In January 2019, Petrillo changed his name to Valentina and began taking estrogen. The following year, he began competing against female athletes and has since broken multiple Italian women’s running records.

Petrillo has been diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a disorder of the eye that causes retinal degeneration over time. Due to this visual impairment, he has been permitted to compete in both matches designated for women with disabilities, as well as those which are not.

In September 2020, Petrillo raced in the women’s 100-, 200- and 400-meter competitions at the Italian Paralympic Athletics Championships in Jesolo, despite having not undergone the procedure euphemistically labeled sex reassignment surgery.

Additionally, Petrillo had not altered his identification documents, which still listed his sex as male, though this did not deter him from being granted permission to enter the match. He won first place in all three races and therefore qualified to represent Italy at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

At the last minute, however, the Italian government intervened and barred Petrillo from competing against women with disabilities at the Paralympics in 2021. The International Olympics Committee (IOC) had just announced updates to guidelines for trans-identifying competitors stating that male athletes must keep the levels of their testosterone below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months in order to participate.

After being awarded three gold medals at the Paralympics qualifiers, Petrillo dedicated his victory to Bologna-based trans activist organization Gruppo Trans APS, headed by a trans-identifying male named Milena Bargiacchi.

“I dedicated to them my victory in my favorite race,” Petrillo told OutSports. “Gruppo Trans supported me in my darkest hour, and they helped me find the answers I needed when I was questioning my identity and my life.”

Gruppo Trans’ website has a section dedicated to outreach for crossdressers, where counseling and Zoom sessions are offered. The point of contact is a man called Charlotte Verniani, who runs a lingerie and sex shop and engages in a fetish practice called “female masking,” a sexual activity which involves men donning a silicone “female” face mask, or, on occasion, a full-body silicone “woman suit.”

Speaking about his history with the BBC in June 2021, Petrillo said: “Until four years ago, if you’d talked to Fabrizio (the name Petrillo was given at birth), Fabrizio would have given you the idea he was sexist. He was a tough guy who’d speak dismissively of women and then be a woman in his private space.”

Petrillo has stated that he used to “try on his mother’s clothes” when he was younger, a behavior that until recently was considered a symptom of a sexual disorder known as transvestic fetishism. He has also said that prior to declaring a transgender identity, Petrillo would steal his wife’s clothing. While describing a memory of “touching” his mother’s skirt for the first time, Petrillo said, “It was an incredible emotion. It was like touching heaven with your finger tip.”

Gruppo Trans lobbies for males to be allowed to compete in women’s sports, and runs a program called QueerFit, a fitness course that offers “genderless changing rooms” and guarantees “privacy” of participants by allowing them to join using an alias.

The organization frequently employs Petrillo as a representative, and he has spoken for Gruppo Trans on several occasions. Gruppo Trans is backing a documentary film about Petrillo’s life called “5 Nanomoles – The Olympic Dream of a Trans Woman.” The title is a reference to the maximum testosterone limit set by World Athletics in 2019 for trans-identifying males in order for them to be eligible to compete against women.

In addition to partnering with Petrillo to campaign for males in women’s athletics events, Gruppo Trans also discusses “trans adolescents” and offers a variety of “training” programs through their website. Corporate diversity management training, courses for health care workers, and gender identity workshops for teachers are all available, as are lessons for children intended to be provided by instructors at schools.

#Italy #Italian Indoor Masters Championship #Valentina Petrillo is a Fabrizio #Cristina Sanulli Was robbed #RadFem Italia #And he received his own changing room?#Trans identified male calling critics the same as Nazis #He thinks not having access to the Women’s restroom is the same as segregation of plague victims #He only started transitioning in 2019?#Another trans identified male who started by stealing his mothers clothes

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gayvampyr · 2 years

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bruh

ID: a brownish-black sign on a beige wall that says in white letters, “Women: ACCESSIBLE RESTROOM ON 3RD FLOOR”. parts of the words are missing so that it is almost illegible. end ID

#like. not only is your ‘accessible restroom’ not accessible if it requires going to another floor to get to #but even the sign that is supposed to tell you where your accessible alternative is is inaccessible #well done

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mzminola · 2 years

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So there’s a post going around about normalizing sleeping in public, and I don’t know about other public institutions, but the main reasons for any rules at libraries are:

1. Safety,

2. Prioritizing space for library activities.

Not-sleeping falls under both. Use of space: if all our chairs are full of patrons sleeping, they are not full of patrons reading or using our wifi or listening to our audiobooks in a safe space, etc.

Safety: we don’t want you to be dying. Seriously, the reason library staff keeps coming up to make sure you’re awake? Is because we’re worried you’re having a health emergency and we don’t want you to fucking die. We need to know if it’s time to call an ambulance.

You know what’s a great solution to people not having a safe place to sleep?

GIVING THEM HOMES.

GIVE THEM HOUSES. GIVE THEM APARTMENTS. GIVE THEM A ROOM AT A HOTEL THAT’S BEEN CONVERTED INTO PERMANENT SHELTERS WHERE EVERYONE GETS THEIR OWN DOOR THAT LOCKS.

So how about instead of organizing a mass sleep-in, you organize town hall meetings and letter writing campaigns and fundraisers AND GET YOUR MUNICIPALITY OR COUNTY OR STATE TO GIVE HOMES TO THE HOMELESS. TO PROVIDE MORE LOW-INCOME AND NO-INCOME HOUSING. TO LOWER AND REMOVE BARRIERS TO EXISTING HOUSING ASSISTANCE.

Sincerely, a library worker who has personally experienced housing insecurity.

#housing insecurity #homelessness #libraries #social norms #we also need safe clean well maintained public restrooms #that are easily findable and accessible and numerous #not to normalize making use of the decorative shrubberies

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frameacloud · 2 months

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Chantelle Billson (February 24, 2024). "Oklahoma education chief claims Nex Benedict’s death being ‘exploited’ by ‘radical leftists’." PinkNews. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/24/oklahoma-superintendent-of-education-ryan-walters-nex-benedict/

This says that during Ryan Walters's campaign to become the Oklahoma education chief, he put out images on social media "of folks in a bathroom with language villainising trans youth specifically." After he became chief, a nonbinary teen was beaten unconscious in one of his schools' bathrooms, and they died the next day. Walters still insists on anti-transgender policies in his schools.

#Nex Benedict #nonbinary #hate crime #transphobia #sexism #restroom access #transgender youth #Oklahoma #child death #violence #transgender #US politics #rated G #hatred #bigotry #Ryan Walters #PinkNews

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sipulaiercelia · 2 months

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www.cn-hospitalbed.com

#medical instruments #Toilet Safety Rails #Mobility Aids #Bathroom Assistive Devices #Toilet Grab Bars #Bathroom Safety Equipment #Mobility Support Tools #Restroom Handrails #Accessibility Aids #Commode Aids #medical bed #medical hospital furniture #exporter&importer

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marnz · 11 months

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alright, prefacing this that i am a) disabled but not a wheelchair user b) an american who was visiting amsterdam and does not live there so this is an honest question:

bro where are the wheelchair accessible bathrooms??? i did not find a single restroom that was wheelchair accessible. I found an interview with a wheelchair user who runs the blog Able Amsterdam and it is bleak out there. how and why?? does the netherlands have accessibility laws?

#amsterdam #disabled #currently #also disclaimer the ADA is fucked in a variety of ways so it’s not like america is perfect in this regard lol!#like the usual set up is that the restroom is as small as an airplane lav or there's a tiny enclosed toilet room and then--#a separate room with a sink #but iirc the 'ADA definition of accessible restroom' means there's room for a wheelchair to turn around in it.#which was not the case here #okay also i had a layover in frankfurt and getting on the plane was a HUGE accessibility nightmare #we went down 4 flights of stairs. got a bus (jam packed as you may imagine!). drove across tarmac to plane. had to go up stairs #all while carrying luggage #the whole time i was like 'okay and how would a disabled person with mobility issues do this...?'#there did not seem to be an alternate method? it was just insane #lufthansa do better challenge

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ailelie · 7 months

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Using non-gendered bathrooms is a bit weird at first. I have spent my entire life only seeing other women (and that includes transwomen) in bathrooms. So, washing my hands and seeing a guy walk in to use the bathroom does feel a bit strange.

But, that's only the first couple times. After that, you stop noticing.

And all the bathrooms are stalls (at least in the non-gendered restroom I've used) so people just...go into a stall. I see nothing. They see nothing.

(I am utterly perplexed by the people who seem to think bathrooms are inherently sexual. Yeah, I'm sure bathroom sex happens, but (1) having gendered bathrooms doesn't really seem a deterrent even for m/f encounters, and (2) I doubt that's going to happen at, say, church, the workplace, the shopping center, etc.)

Anyway. Just figured I'd share my experience. My workplace hasn't moved to non-gendered bathrooms yet, but we've submitted a request and I know conversations are happening. So, fingers crossed.

#the non-gendered bathroom I use is a three-stall restroom at my church #when we remodel we'll add more stalls and make all or most wheelchair accessible

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caffeinatedopossum · 1 year

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Me: *just trying to look up how automatic flushing toilets work*

The first article (and also a few of the other results): THESE TOILETS TRAUMATIZED ME AND ARE BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. FUCK WHOEVER MADE THESE. WHOEVER INVENTED THESE HATES CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE AND ALSO SUSTAINABILITY OF WATER!!!

Me: 👀 well damn. I mean I'm glad it wasn't just me but still. I need unbiased info and I don't think I found it

#lmao i shouldnt be laughing over this so much but goddamn #it was so EMPHATIC too like gurl #i get it though. im glad it wasnt just me #like i kept trying to tell people i was too short for the censors and no one ever cared #for them it was a small annoyance but for me it was genuinely an accessibility issue on more than one front #it just sucks because i know im not the only disabled person that cant use these toilets #it also wasnt just as a kid. i was too short for these as a teenager and adult too #i feel like there should at least be regular toilets in the handicap/family restroom #i also came accross a walmart once that actually had a smaller toilet where the censor was actually at a reasonable height #like next to the regular and i think thats pog #also why the fuck do some of the censors flash RED? Like i know there was probably a thought process behind this but cmon #its a black censor with a flashing red light on a machine that makes horribly loud noises. sometimes unpredictably #that just seems like poor design on every front

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coochiequeens · 5 months

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A fully intact male walked into a shower with girls and then exposed himself. But that never happens.

The Department of Education (DOE) has opened an investigation into an incident at a Wisconsin school involving a transgender woman student in a locker room with female students.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm, announced this week that it received a letter from the DOE saying that the department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) was opening an investigation into a complaint it filed earlier this year involving a transgender student who undressed in front of female students in the Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD). Newsweek reached out to the DOE via email for comment.

"Following the school's failure to sufficiently address the incident, disregard for parents' concerns, and their stonewalling of an open records request, WILL worked alongside parents of the school district to seek an investigation and remedies from the Department of Education under the Biden Administration," the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty [WILL] said in a press release on Thursday. "The federal government notified WILL that in response to our complaint they are opening an investigation of SPASD."

WILL Deputy Counsel Daniel Lennington told Newsweek on Thursday: "This opening of a formal civil rights investigation is tremendously significant, not only for this case, but as a warning to other schools nationwide that embrace new and untested transgender policies without considering the impact on female students."

According to the WILL, in June, it filed a complaint with the DOE after learning that an 18-year-old transgender woman student undressed in front of four female high school students in a locker room.

"As the girls began to shower, the male student approached them, entered the shower area, announced 'I'm trans, by the way,' and then fully undressed and showered next to the girls," the complaint said. "He was initially turned towards the wall but turned and fully exposed his body to the four girls. He had not transitioned medically and had the physiological appearance of an adult male. Understandably, the girls closed their eyes and tried to hurry up and leave the showers."

Conservatives have continued to slam the LGBTQ+ and transgender community this year after Bud Light partnered with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney, with many calling for boycotts and an end to the inclusion of transgender women in female sports.

Many Democrats have shown support for the transgender community, with President Joe Biden recently calling for an end to discrimination against trans individuals and saying: "My Administration ended the ban on transgender Americans serving our country and I signed historic executive action to strengthen civil rights protections for all LGBTQI+ Americans."

In the complaint to the DOE, WILL said that the locker room incident is a violation of Title IX law involving the prohibition of discrimination based on sex.

"Under this law, sex discrimination encompasses sexual harassment, which includes unwelcome conduct so severe that it effectively denies a person equal access to the education program, like the incident that occurred at SPASD," it said.

"WILL claims in this complaint that SPASD discriminated against four freshman girls on the basis of sex. Not only did the district fail to comply with requirements under Title IX, but its policies fail to protect all female students in the district."

The law firm said it previously listened to complaints from parents following the incident, and that the female students initially informed an assistant principal, who was required to notify the Title IX coordinator but failed to do so.

"Over a month after the incident, a principal emailed our client and apologized 'for the incident that occurred' and attached a copy of a 'Restroom and Locker Room Accessibility Guidance' document [Ex. A], which by all accounts was never adopted by the school board," the complaint said. "No one at SPASD contacted the girls to offer supportive measures or an opportunity to file a formal complaint of sexual harassment until after WILL became involved."

A spokesperson for the school district confirmed to WMSN-TV in Wisconsin receipt of the letter from the DOE but didn't comment further.

The letter announcing the investigation by the DOE said the department will remain "neutral," and "will collect and analyze the evidence it needs in order to make a decision."

"We applaud the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights for investigating the allegations made in our complaint, but we all need to wait and see if they take this as seriously as they should," WILL Associate Counsel Cory Brewer said. "We hope this results in answers for parents and families at the Sun Prairie Area School District, but we won't know until we see the results of the investigation."

#usa #Wisconsin #The Department of Education (DOE)#The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty #Office of Civil Rights (OCR)#Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD)#Keep men out of women’s spaces #Restroom and Locker Room Accessibility Guidance' document #I hate that a conservative law firm is taking up the case on behalf of those girls #But liberal law firms are too busy protecting men

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lullabiestoparalyze · 11 months

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Minnesota just signed adult changing tables in public restrooms into law!

This is a HUGE win for the disabled community, and I hope other states follow in our footsteps soon.

#disability #accessibility #restrooms #disability rights #public restrooms #minnesota

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neuralpathway · 7 days

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monitoring students to this extent is slightly insane I fear. I don't think all of this is legal