Over this summer I went to a program through my jewish youth group at Brandeis University. Like many universities now, Brandeis has a few gender neutral scattered around the campus. I thought that was like the coolest thing ever because i had never had the opportunity to use a gender neutral bathroom. One of the buildings i was in every day for a recurring group activity (it was a jewish text study class) had a couple gender neutral bathrooms.

I was ecstatic when i saw that they had them in this building. I had heard there were some on campus but hadnt had the time to go looking for them. I happily went to use the restroom and as i was washing my hands i overheard outside the bathroom someone from my class laughing at the sign that said gender neutral and saying “so i guess shemales/trannys are ok now?” (i cant recall which one he said). I was devastated, my first time being able to be completely comfortable using the restroom in a long time and it was ruined.