What would the world be like if it was built for us? The world as it is now is so unaccommodating to anyone who isn’t cis, straight, white, male, and able bodied. Whether it’s lack of gender neutral bathrooms or failure to provide disability access in stores and restaurants, the world we live in now is not built for people who don’t meet the western societal standards of what a perfect body should look and function like. That being said, why isn’t the world more accessible? Aren’t we the ones who decide how the world should work? So why is it that we continue to make these things so inaccessible when it is an easy fix? It’s so engrained in our society that this is just the way things are and that we should just accept it. It’s like the saying “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” except it is broken and we refuse to acknowledge it. There are so many ways in which the world could be more accessible that just aren’t implemented tin the way they should be. Like why do we not have wheelchair ramps and elevators at every establishment? We could make all restrooms gender neutral as well. Small things such as this would make the world a much more accessible place for everyone to live and be happy. I guess I just don’t understand why we would go out of our way to make things inaccessible for those who need these things. Not to mention it would help everybody, not just those who you would think need it. An example would be parents withs strollers, a ramp would be helpful to them too so they don’t have to carry the stroller up a flight of stairs. Moral of the story, the world could be so much more accessible if we just decided that it should be.
Unruly Bodies 
I completely agree with what you’re saying. This world, specifically America, is very anti people who are categorized as “other”. We are expected to conform to this cis-heteropatriarchal society in which abled bodied people are prioritized, and those of us with disabilities are completely looked over. To add onto what you say about the gender neutral bathrooms, if you look at the ones on campus, it frustrates me that they only made the women’s restrooms into gender neutral bathrooms. Men still have their own space separate from non-men. I’m non-binary so I am all for gender neutral bathrooms, but it frustrates me that in order to provide for the gender nonconforming community, UMBC took away from women, who are already a marginalized group in comparison to men. I know it is such a small difference, but once I noticed it it became impossible to not think about.
This is such an important topic. Abled people do not realize how lucky they are in the world. As someone with a disability, trying to live in this world as successfully as abled bodied people is hard. The ignorance people have because it does not affect them is crazy. One example I had a broken foot a bit ago and trying to walk around the umbc campus was really hard. Since most of the campus is filled with stairs, I had to figure out how to take the elevators and ramps to get to class. The elevators were not labeled well and were incredibly slow. It caused me to be really late to class. Since most people are able to walk up the stairs, other ways to getting to class are ignored.