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A district judge in Wisconsin has sided with an 11-year-old trans girl over her use of the girls’ toilets and temporarily blocked school officials from preventing her access.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (23 children)

In places with large crowds, gender neutral bathrooms (assuming you also mean single-use) don't really work. It causes massive lines.

Not to mention, there's no need. It's a bathroom. Why does anyone care who they pee or poop next to? It seems so silly and arbitrary to me. Just get in, do your thing, wash your hands, and get out. haha

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

We can have gender neutral bathrooms where we have a shared hand-washing area, and individual stalls. Heck, you can even have cameras pointed towards the sink area if people are so afraid of getting harassed in the bathroom. Gender should not matter when you have individual stalls.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Right? I've been using public restrooms for a long time and I don't recall ever seeing anyone's naughty bits.

..and for me the most ridiculous part of this discussion is that bathrooms have never been a secure space. If some creep wanted to go into a bathroom to harass people, there is literally nothing stopping them. It's not like bathrooms have guarded entrances and now people have a sneaky way to get into a bathroom by pretending to be transgender or something insane like that.

It's literally a manufactured issue to get the GOP electorate terrified, as everything they do is designed to do.

[–] xycu 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been using public restrooms for a long time and I don't recall ever seeing anyone's naughty bits.

I see you've never had the misfortune of using the circular trough-style urinal where everyone is facing each other and peeing into the middle. Thankfully, they are not very common.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From the Horrible Bathroom Hall of Fame, I present the Mathematical Sciences bathroom at the University of Central Florida:

https://imgur.io/gallery/FJvcZ

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is it with the US and making public toilets as weird as possible? Your freaking walls & doors are bad enough but this is like a piss fountain. I'd expect something like this in maybe a swinger / fetish club or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not a urinal, it's for washing your hands. I've mostly ever seen them in factories where you have shifts coming on and off the clock at the same time so they need to be able to handle a high volume of workers.

That said, I'm not a big fan of the piss walls you get in the UK and Ireland. They always feel awkward to me, but I guess if you're used to it...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

LOL when I first saw the pic you posted I thought the sink in the middle was for communal pissing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is what happens when you have theoretical scientists in charge of bathrooms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I hate it 🤢

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh you know what? I think I did have those in elementary school. That was a while ago though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lol! Those are meant for washing your hands, not for pissing. Although I guess I can imagine a scenario where some genius thinks one is a urinal and somehow the idea catches on. Still pretty funny though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I hate this kind of shit too. It costs less and somehow might be able to pack more pissers, but it's so weird. Maybe unless you're into staring at other people when you're peeing.

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