Utrecht council goes for ‘gender neutral’ toilets

DutchNews, July 1, 2016

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Utrecht city council has become the first in the country to vote to introduce gender neutral toilets throughout council-owned buildings. 

The aim is to make transsexuals feel more comfortable about which toilets they use and remove discussion with other users, supporters of the plan said. 

Gay and transgender rights lobby group COC has been campaigning for the introduction of gender neutral toilets for some time. 

The motion to make the switch came from Liberal democratic party D66. ‘As an open house of democracy in the heart of the city, this is a fine symbolic place to begin with toilets for everyone,’ the party said in a statement. 

It is not clear if the town hall will retain some men and women’s toilets for people who feel uncomfortable sharing facilities. 

If the switch to unisex toilets is a success in the town hall, the concept will be used in other council buildings. 

There are already mixed toilets in Amsterdam and Leiden university college buildings.

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 transgender troops, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on June 30, 2016

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"The Akashic Circle" – Jul 17, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: Religion, The Humanization of God, Benevolent Design, DNA, Akashic Circle, (Old) Souls, Gaia, Indigenous People, Talents, Reincarnation, Genders, Gender Switches, In “between” Gender Change, Gender Confusion, Shift of Human Consciousness, Global Unity,..... etc.)  - (Text version)

“… Gender Switching

Old souls, let me tell you something. If you are old enough, and many of you are, you have been everything. Do you hear me? All of you. You have been both genders. All of you have been what I will call between genders, and that means that all of you have had gender switches. Do you know what happens when it's time for you to switch a gender? We have discussed it before. You'll have dozens of lifetimes as the same gender. You're used to it. It's comfortable. You cannot conceive of being anything else, yet now it's time to change. It takes approximately three lifetimes for you to get used to it, and in those three lifetimes, you will have what I call "gender confusion."

It isn't confusion at all. It's absolutely normal, yet society often will see it as abnormal. I'm sitting here telling you you've all been through it. All of you. That's what old souls do. It's part of the system. …”