Bracing for Idaho's new ban, group maps safe bathrooms across the state for trans people

Now that Idaho’s transgender bathroom ban is the law, transgender Idahoans are navigating how to safely use the bathroom in public.

Preparing for the ban, Trans Affirm, a nonprofit that advocates for trans people in Idaho, crowd-sourced an online map of inclusive bathrooms across Idaho that it says are safe for people who are trans or gender diverse to use.

The list — developed through hundreds of community-submitted ideas — is made up of largely gender-neutral private bathrooms, said Scar Rulien, a board member for the nonprofit. He said creating that map was the first thing that came to mind after the bill passed the Idaho Legislature this spring.

“It is already a confusing law as it is. And it can be scary for transgender people, who identify as one gender, to use the bathroom that is of the gender that they don’t identify as,” Rulien said in an interview. “Especially if they are actively transitioning and look like the gender that they identify as, it can pose a risk to their safety.”

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