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Where Do We Go From Here?

99% Invisible

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The Importance of the Gender Binary in Rest Rooms

In some parts of the country, those liberal west coast cities especially, you'll see places turning single user stalls into what are sometimes labelled all gender rest rooms. Oer doesn't think that's the ideal sign either, because we're not really gender neutral. And so as they did their research, what started to become clear to the stalled team was that wherever designers tend to rely on avitars human figures, it seems like the icon will always fail to capture the complexity of humanity by implicitly leaving some folks out.

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