- The notorious Northern Arizona University now has signs outside of on-campus restrooms that ask students to consider whether they have pee privilege.
The notorious Northern Arizona University now has signs outside of on-campus restrooms that ask students to consider whether they have pee privilege.
Do you have pee privilege? one sign questions, informing restroom-goers that if they never have to think about gender identity, ability, or access when peeing, then [they] do.
Do you have pee privilege?
Another sign expands upon the definition of pee privilege, noting that the ability to use a restroom without fear or concern for your own safety constitutes such a privilege, explaining that other factors like the gender binary, or the ability to undoubtedly know which bathroom to pick, contribute to pee privilege.
Similar signage, pictures of which were obtained by Campus Reform, offers a guide for students on the dos and donts of encountering a transgender person in a restroom.
Feel like someone is in the wrong restroom? the flyer questions, deliberately placing wrong in scare quotes, and then advising students not to question someone who they think fits such a category.
Dont stare, the sign continues, suggesting that this person is probably aware that they dont fit into either restroom so they dont need anymore eyes reminding them.
The sign does, however, confirm that students should protect not their own safety, but the safety of any transgender individual they may encounter in a bathroom, explaining that gender variant people are at high risk of verbal, sexual, and physical assault.
Keep yourself accountable to make sure theyre safe from others, the sign concludes.
Notably, all of the aforementioned signs encourage students with questions to visit a website that has been created specifically to chronicling all of the gender-neutral bathroom options on campus.
Campus Reform reached out to the university for comment on the matter, but did not receive a response in time for publication.