Yale University (Picture: Getty)

If you’re ever caught short at Yale University, you don’t need to worry about where the nearest gents’ and ladies’ loos are.

The university has published an interactive map showing where to find 332 ‘gender neutral’ toilets across its campus in New Haven, Connecticut.

It’s designed to improve the environment more comfortable for transgender people who may not feel comfortable using a bathroom specified as for men or women.

Which toilet to use seems like quite a personal question, but it has become a focus of national debate in America as North Carolina has banned people from using any bathrooms other than those designated for their birth gender.


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Having a ‘gender neutral’ toilet removes any debate about who should use what toilet.

This year, Yale will also allow graduating students to have the name they use on their diplomas, rather than the name they were born with.

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Isaac Amend, a rising senior who is transitioning to male, said he and other members of the transgender community noticed a big difference at Yale after Caitlyn Jenner’s transition brought transgender issues into the national spotlight.

‘I’m pretty sure that if you take any year in Yale history and measure the amount of change that happened with regards to trans rights, this has been the most monumental year, by a lot,’ Amend said.

The new toilets won’t have these signs (Picture: Getty)

Professors are now using preferred pronouns when addressing students and the student health plan now includes gender reassignment surgery, hormone suppression therapy and medical procedures are now covered under the student health plan, although Amend said many doctors at the school are not supportive.

Guy growing cannabis illegally is now a multi-millionaire and paying his taxesYale’s all-gender bathrooms are the product of the work of Yale’s office of LGBTQ Resources, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Most are single stall restrooms that were once labeled either as either a men’s or a women’s room.

They now include signs that say ‘All Gender Restroom’ with the traditional man and woman figures next to a figure wearing trousers on one leg and a dress on the other.

Amend said he was excited to find out that the all-gender bathrooms are being promoted at graduation, when many old-guard alumni will learn of them for the first time.

‘That’s music to my ears,’ he said. ‘And what’s the greatest harm that can be done? An old white guy makes a snide remark? Who cares?’