Permit Workers to Use Restroom of Their ‘Gender Identity’

It’s come to this: On Monday, June 1, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published a guide telling employers which restrooms their workers may use. Basically, it’s up to them.

 

First, the Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers states that employees can suffer “adverse health effects if toilets are not available when employees need them.”  Health effects!?  Cue OSHA.

 

Then the guide outlines the “core principle” that “all employees,” including transgender employees, “should be permitted to use the facilities that correspond with their gender identity.

 

“For example, a person who identifies as a man should be permitted to use men’s restrooms, and a person who identifies as a woman should be permitted to use women’s restrooms. The employee should determine the most appropriate and safest option for him- or herself.”

 

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