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restrooms stories: 5 news summaries

Toilet Summit Tackles Issue of 'Potty Parity' for Women

Organizations discuss worldwide sanitation in Macau

Nov 4, 08 3:16 PM CST
(Newser) - The World Toilet Summit began in Macau today, as UN agencies, civil-society groups and the World Toilet Organization discuss how to provide sanitation for the 2.5 billion who still lack access to a clean lavatory, LiveScience reports. The summit will also address the issue of “potty parity”—... More »

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United Nations • restrooms • sanitation • developing countries • public restrooms • toilet

Transsexual Thai Students Get Own Toilets

Up to 20% of rural high school's boys would rather be girls

Jul 30, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A high school in rural Thailand has given its many transgender students their own restroom, the BBC reports. Situated between the boys' and girls' rooms, the room has a half male/half female figure painted on the door. Inside, effeminate teenage boys preen. As many as  20% of the school's male... More »

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high school • Thailand • transexualism • restrooms • transgender • Transvestite

Germaphobes Get a Handle
on Bathrooms

Inventors help the wary leave the loo without touching doorknobs

Feb 15, 08 2:40 PM CST
(Newser) - For germaphobes, few sights elicit as much terror as doorknob in a public bathroom. Sure, you washed your hands, “but then someone else didn’t wash their hands and you have to touch the same door handle,” explains the inventor of the SanitGrip, an L-shaped, elbow-operated handle that... More »

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bathroom hygiene • bacteria • restrooms • inventions • bathroom • toilet • germaphobia • SanitGrasp • James Vallee • Safe-T-Gard • Sanidoor • Simon Sassoon • HYSO • Sanihandles • Matthew Fulkerson

College Johns Go Coed

Some schools address transgender concerns by creating gender-neutral bathrooms

Sep 1, 07 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - When students return to Emerson College in Massachusetts this month, they’ll be greeted by silhouettes of a man and woman on a single sign outside some two-dozen campus restrooms. In response to growing transgender discomfort with single-sex bathrooms, many colleges are making their johns gender-neutral, the Boston Globe reports. More »

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restrooms • transgender • Tufts University • University of Vermont • Emerson College • bathroom

China Opens Giant Public Loo

Visitors take their pick from 1,000 toilet stalls

Jul 7, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Time for tourists to ditch the Great Wall and head for the city of Chongqing in southwest China, which recently opened a startling new attraction: a sprawling public restroom. The free facilities lie behind an Egyptian facade that conceals 1,000 toilets spread over four stories and almost 33,000... More »

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China • bathroom hygiene • restrooms • bathroom • toilet

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