Appendix 9: Cities and Counties with Public Accommodations Nondiscrimination Ordinances and Laws That Include Gender Identity or Expression

• Author: Ally Windsor Howell
• Profession: Former practicing lawyer from Alabama
• Pages: 303-319

303

State

City or

CountyAuthorityBathroom, etc. Provisions

Arizona City of Tucson

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T C,

art. III, §17–12

None

CaliforniaCity of

Los Angeles

L A

M. C §

49.70, et seq.

None

City of

Oakland

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C 

O §

9.44.020

The city ordinance prohibits the

denial of access to “facilities, includ-

ing dressing and bathroom facilities,

consistent with the person’s gender

identity.” Sub § E.

City of

San Diego

S D

M. C,

art. 2, §

52.9605

None

Cities and Counties with

Public Accommodations

Nondiscrimination

Ordinances and Laws

That Include Gender

Identity or Expression

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304

State

City or

CountyAuthorityBathroom, etc. Provisions

City and

County of San

Francisco

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C §3305None

City of Santa

Cruz

S C

M. C

9.83.010, et

seq.

None

County of

Santa Cruz

S C

C C

8.52.010, et

seq.

None

City of

West

Hollywood

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H

M. C,

chap. 9.28.010,

et seq.

None

Colorado City of

Boulder

C 

B R.

C, chap.

12–1

“[T]ransitioned transsexuals may

use the locker rooms and shower

facilities of their new sex and shall

be protected by” the law “from any

discrimination in their use of such

locker rooms and shower rooms,”

and “transitioning transsexuals shall

be granted reasonable accommoda-

tion in access to locker rooms and

shower facilities.” 12–1–4(c) and (d)

City and

County of

Denver

D R.

M. C §

28–91, et seq.

“[T]ransitioned transsexuals may

use the locker rooms and shower

facilities of their new sex and shall

be protected . . . from discrimination

in their use of such locker rooms and

shower rooms,” and “transitioning

transsexuals shall be granted reason-

able accommodation in access to

locker rooms and shower facilities.”

§ 28–96(c) and (d)

Florida County of

Broward

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C C

 O

 §§16 ½

– 22

§ 16½-22 does “not prohibit dis-

crimination on the basis of sex in:

[r]estrooms, shower rooms, bath-

houses, and similar facilities, which

are by their nature distinctly private,

or YMCA, YWCA, and similar type

dormitory lodging facilities.”

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