{"id":3971,"date":"2017-02-27T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:39:21","slug":"mapping-safe-washrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/02\/mapping-safe-washrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Safe Washrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to measures<\/a> like North Carolina’s House Bill 2<\/a>, which restricts access to public washrooms by transgender people, crowdsourced online maps of safe washrooms<\/a>\u2014places with unisex or gender-neutral washrooms, or that let transgender people use the washroom that matches their gender identity\u2014have been created: Refuge Restrooms<\/a>\u00a0has both a list and a map view; Safe Bathrooms<\/a> uses Google My Maps. These maps\u00a0seem\u00a0like the\u00a0modern-day equivalent of The Negro Motorist Green Book<\/a><\/em> for trans people.\u00a0[WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to measures like North Carolina’s House Bill 2, which restricts access to public washrooms by transgender people, crowdsourced online maps of safe washrooms\u2014places with unisex or gender-neutral washrooms, or that let transgender people… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[781,261,780,158,782],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-web-mapping","tag-bathrooms","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-transgender","tag-usa","tag-washrooms","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1814788,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/05\/mapping-anti-trans-legislation-risk\/","url_meta":{"origin":3971,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Anti-Trans Legislation Risk","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 May 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"There has been an outbreak of anti-trans legislation at the state level in the United States, and Erin Reed has spent the last three years tracking it. 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