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Santa Fe mayor wants gender-neutral bathrooms
KOB Eyewitness News ^ | February 4, 2015 | Stuart Dyson

Posted on 02/04/2015 10:44:46 PM PST by Reverend Saltine

Updated: 02/04/2015 6:58 PM | Created: 02/04/2015 8:10 AM By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Don't flush this idea down the drain just yet. Santa Fe's mayor stirred up quite a controversy with a plan for public restrooms that both men and women would use - but hang on - it's probably not what you're thinking. Javier Gonzales is not talking about men and women sharing big public restrooms. He's talking about ones with one toilet and one sink. Sometimes they're called "family" restrooms. You've seen them at places like Starbuck's and Target. "Right now businesses across New Mexico already have gender neutral bathrooms, many of them do," Gonzales said. You get an idea of how it would work by visiting the Santa Fe Convention Center. There's a women's room with three stalls. Guess what? It's going to stay a women's room. Across the hall there's a men's room. It has three stalls. It's going to stay a men's room. In the middle is the one the mayor is talking about. It's got one toilet and one sink. The door locks. Privacy. You don't share anything. The mayor says his plan does target one group in particular. "It sends a huge message to an important part of our community, that you can be safe," Gonzales said. "If you're transgender, there's a place for you to go." And you can go there too - if Gonzales gets his way. He will soon present restroom legislation to the city council.


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1 posted on 02/04/2015 10:44:46 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
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2 posted on 02/04/2015 10:53:39 PM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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I thought family restrooms were for normal people with children too young to go in the restroom with strangers, or for disabled people who need assistance from a caregiver.

I think it’s nice when a business decides to provide this convenience. On their own. Without government force.


3 posted on 02/04/2015 10:56:39 PM PST by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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Public restrooms are the chapels of homosexuals.


4 posted on 02/04/2015 11:05:31 PM PST by allendale
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Maybe the judge has one of each sex organ. If he does, he knows what he can go do to himself.


5 posted on 02/04/2015 11:21:34 PM PST by jessduntno ("If you give listeners a choice between NPR and NPR, theyÂ’ll pick NPR every time." - Howie Carr)
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Public restrooms are the anonymous sex chambers of homosexuals.


6 posted on 02/04/2015 11:27:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Sometimes they're called "family" restrooms.

Soon to be known as "quickie" restrooms. Normal families will learn real quick to avoid them like the plague.

7 posted on 02/04/2015 11:43:04 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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These family restrooms are a courtesy that businessmen may choose to provide, but they cost more and take more space. If mandated, that would lead to fewer total restrooms, which would be a big problem at venues where women already have issues with wait time.


8 posted on 02/05/2015 12:45:52 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Will they be dedicated to Larry Craig?


9 posted on 02/05/2015 3:09:30 AM PST by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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When people deny human nature the results are insane.


10 posted on 02/05/2015 5:06:05 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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