This submission emphasizes that access must be safe, dignified, and free from discrimination based on SOGIESC, while highlighting how current systems and frameworks fail to adequately recognize and address the specific needs of our communities.
It also identifies structural and legal challenges, including binary and gender-segregated sanitation infrastructure, criminalization and legal restrictions on gender identity and expression, lack of inclusive policies and disaggregated data, and pervasive stigma and social hostility that limit safe access to sanitation facilities.