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Flushes is a silly app about going to the bathroom. Bathroom bills are not silly. They make a normal daily thing dangerous for trans people. If Flushes made you smile, put a few dollars toward The Trevor Project.
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What bathroom bills do
Bathroom bills are laws that dictate which public restroom a person is allowed to use, typically the one matching the sex on their birth certificate rather than the one matching who they are. Twenty-one states have one on the books. In four of them, using the wrong door is a criminal offense in some circumstances.
Quick facts
- None
Two studies looked for evidence that letting transgender people use the bathroom matching their gender identity makes anyone else less safe. Neither found any.1
- 11%
of transgender men who regularly used women’s restrooms, which is the door a bathroom bill sends them to, were verbally harassed in one. Among the transgender men who used men’s restrooms instead, it was 7%.1
- 55%
of transgender adults surveyed did not use a restroom when they needed to go. 32% avoided eating and drinking so they would not have to, and 8% got a urinary tract or kidney problem out of it.1
- 58%
of transgender and nonbinary young people had been prevented or discouraged from using a bathroom that matched their gender identity. Their odds of a suicide attempt in the past year were 1.66 times those of the young people who had not been, after adjusting for the other discrimination they reported.2
- 8%
of transgender and nonbinary young people with a gender-neutral bathroom at school had attempted suicide in the past year. Of those without one, 13%.3
- Herman, Flores and Redfield, Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms and Other Gendered Facilities, Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, 2025.
- Price-Feeney, Green and Dorison, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021.
- The Trevor Project, 2025 national survey of more than 16,000 LGBTQ+ young people aged 13 to 24.
Donors
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our fundraiser for The Trevor Project. Whether you gave publicly or anonymously, we appreciate your support!
Why The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project runs free, confidential crisis support for LGBTQ young people by phone, by text and by chat, staffed by trained counselors at every hour of every day. Somebody picks up at three in the morning on a public holiday.
They are a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit. CharityWatch rated them A- in April 2025 and lists them as a top-rated charity, with 80 cents of every dollar they spend going to programs rather than to overhead. You can read about their work and their finances on their own site before giving them anything.