Outside Reading response 3

This book is prettyyyyyyyy cool. It's so interesting to read all about these different experiences from queer people about their lives. Every one of these chapters is a different story from a different person. One of the ones I just read was written a lot more playfully than most of the stories. It was about a person and how much they love gender-neutral bathrooms, specifically one in Austin, TX. The person talks about how hard it is to travel, to even go out in public, where there are not gender neutral bathrooms. When there aren't gender neutral bathrooms, it forces them to pick a gender if they go to the bathroom. I feel like this topic has become more and more prevalent in the news over the past year or so. Our own school has even added gender neutral bathrooms (this wasn't a huge announcement but was really only told to students who asked for them to be made including myself and a few other individuals). The best part about the addition of gender neutral bathrooms, is that you don't have to pick when you go to the bathroom. I've been worried at times myself if what I was wearing would cause alarm in the women's bathroom. I was so glad to hear about the experience of someone else who wanted/needed gender neutral bathrooms.