For many of sufferers of IBD it can be a pain to leave the house for fear that they won't be able to find a public restroom when the need arrives... and with IBD it often does. Some kids in Texas took it upon themselves to try an relive some of that pain by lobbying for a law that would require businesses to provide access to employee-only restrooms to anyone with a pressing medical condition.
Catherine, a home-schooled fifth-grader, said she’s been denied access to employee-only restrooms six times, mainly in clothing stores. “I’d have to run to another store,” she said. In one instance, Catherine said, she sprinted through a restaurant past diners and workers who were “wondering why I was running in a restaurant without eating.”
Link to Kids lobby House members on gutsy issue