Public bathrooms become battleground for transgender people, but Omaha offers some legal protections

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POSTED: MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016 12:15 AM | UPDATED: 12:09 PM, MON MAY 2, 2016.
By Roseann Moring / World-Herald staff writer

When 24-year-old Miles Jordan started to publicly identify as male, he found restrooms to be an issue fraught with tension.

“Really most of the negative experiences I’ve had have been around bathroom issues,” said Jordan, a transgender man who grew up in Omaha.

He found himself thinking nearly constantly about where and how to use public restrooms safely. And many other transgender people have had the same experience.

Now the issue has drawn national attention because of a new North Carolina law requiring that a person use the restroom that matches the gender on his or her birth certificate while in state government buildings, public schools and universities.

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