Controversial bathroom sign sparks backlash in Medicine Hat - News Summed Up

Controversial bathroom sign sparks backlash in Medicine Hat


Management later posted a sign outside the bathroom which read: "You must use the bathroom of your birth gender." "I think a lot of people are going to take their business elsewhere, whether they're transgender or not," she added. A bar in Medicine Hat, Alta., is facing backlash after it told a transgender woman she could not use the female washrooms and later posted a controversial sign that some say is discriminatory. Destiny Burkart said the argument that men could pretend to be transgender in order to enter the women's bathroom does not justify discrimination. Sign taken downThe sign has since been taken down, and management has designated a new gender-neutral washroom, said Schmaltz.


Source: CBC News July 26, 2016 22:23 UTC



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