While the United States has continued to debate so-called "bathroom bills" targeting transgender people, Berlin’s justice minister is hoping to open up government building bathrooms to all. According to an audit report by the Berlin justice ministry seen by Tagesspiegel on Monday, most of the bathrooms in Berlin’s government administrative buildings could be converted into unisex facilities without great effort. Such unisex toilets are intended to reduce discrimination against transgender and intersex individuals, as well as to avoid a ‘culture war’ such as the one in the United States, Behrendt explained to Tagesspiegel. Some public building bathrooms have already been adjusted, such as the office for labour administrators, which was changed a year and a half ago. The justice ministry itself also has one unisex toilet.

Source: The Local July 10, 2017 13:41 UTC