Free to Pee: Inside the unsuccessful movement for gender-neutral bathrooms at GBC and why they’re still essential today

In 2014, teams of students and faculty dressed up as toilets and paraded around campus, hanging posters up in every bathroom they could find and sharing information with everyone with whom they crossed paths. The words ‘FREE TO PEE’, a call to provide gender-neutral bathroom facilities to the George Brown College (GBC) community, could be…

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Free to Pee washroom safety campaign at GBC

By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter Discrimination of all kinds has occurred in the restroom. It has seen racial segregation, homophobic policing, non-accessibility, pay toilets against the poor and time limits for substance users. It’s a place of ongoing bullying, harassment and assault due to rigid enforcement of gendered washrooms. Accessible and safe public bathrooms are…

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