Pure Pizza Pure Pizza of Charlotte, North Carolina, is generating buzz for an unexpected reason: a note hanging inside its unisex bathroom.

"We have a UniSex bathroom because sometimes gender specific toilets put others into uncomfortable situations," the note reads.

Juli Ghazi, the owner of Pure Pizza, goes on to write that she added a unisex bathroom option because she wanted to "provide a place" for single dads with daughters, single moms with sons, parents with disabled children, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and adults with aging parents who may be disabled.

A photo of the note was posted to a neighborhood Facebook group this weekend and has since been shared more than 1,000 times and liked by more than 2,800 people.

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The pizza shop lacks a men's room altogether, with one gender-neutral restroom and one reserved for women, local LGBT-centric journalist and blogger Matt Comer reports.

Ghazi was inspired to designate a gender-neutral restroom in part because the Charlotte City Council failed to pass several LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances, Comer writes. The rejected legislature would have expanded laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories.

Gendered bathrooms have recently been the target of numerous recent proposals and laws. A new bill was recently proposed in Virginia that would require public facilities to designate restrooms for use "by a specific gender to solely be used by individuals whose anatomical sex matches such gender designation." Meanwhile, cities such as Seattle, Philadelphia, and Austin, Texas, have passed laws that require public institutions to provide visitors with gender-neutral bathroom options.