This is what a city like Austin gets as a silly council member when only 15% vote in elections. Hope this changes when the elections coincide with the general elections in Nov, instead of May.
Posted on 08/22/2014 6:23:55 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952
In the near future, you may no longer have to wait in line to use the men's or women's room. A proposed city-wide ordinance would make all business, single occupancy bathrooms, "gender neutral."
Some businesses around town already have unisex bathrooms. None of them wanted to talk to FOX 7 on camera, but if this ordinance passes, all businesses will eventually have to adopt the rule if their bathrooms only have one toilet.
For some people, it's not as simple as identifying with the silhouette of a man or woman in a dress.
"We're in regular contact with leaders within the LGBTQ community," Austin City Council member Chris Riley said.
Riley says some members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning community find the faceless figures outside bathroom doors discriminating, forcing them to conform to a gender identity.
"We could easily make those gender neutral and address the concerns that are out there about safety and comfort," Riley said.
Riley is proposing a city ordinance that would make all single-occupancy bathrooms inside businesses free of gender signage. http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/26342470/unisex-bathroom-ordinance-proposed
“Line length down; sexual assaults up.”
I'll bet you are, Chris.
well. for a one-holer it’s one thing, for a multi-holer it’s quite different
As a male who lived for many years in a house with 4 women..wife, two daughters, and a MIL..why any woman would support this is beyond my understanding. Guys pee standing up, and especially when it’s not their bathroom, they are, shall we say..careless where we aim. Women are so gonna love going into a john AFTER some guy has finished
Because life is all about what way you choose to have sex.
There is absolutely nothing more important than that.
Talk about pathetic.
Yeah! Where are the urinals in the Ladies room?
Discrimination!
I like the whole thing with “leaving the seat down”. OK, I will leave it down, but you girls can wipe my piss dribbles off it OK?
Riley is proposing a city ordinance that would make all single-occupancy bathrooms inside businesses free of gender signage.
I don't see how enacting this particular ordinance would cause a safety issue for women or girls.
You’re right.
The only issue, as another poster pointed out, is that men are sloppier than women. But, as someone who has occasionally had to wait outside an empty bathroom with the wrong-posted sex on the door, I can see the point.
This facility serves “Pointers and Setters”
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Good luck with that.
I agree, but will men who expose themselves to a mother and daughter have to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives if they complain?
“...all businesses will eventually have to adopt the rule if their bathrooms only have one toilet.”
Looking at this logically, and assuming they mean *restrooms*, not *bathrooms*, if they only have one restroom, with one toilet and optionally a urinal, then it is almost certainly already “one person at a time, gender indifferent”.
If they have two restrooms, with two toilets each, then they are also exempt, and can have a male and female restroom.
So this only practically applies only if they have two restrooms, each with a single toilet, and one labeled for each gender.
A lot of businesses already have such a set up, of more than one gender indifferent toilets. It doesn’t really matter if they are gender indifferent, because they only have one toilet, so only take one person at a time who enters then locks the door.
“Riley says some members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning community find the faceless figures outside bathroom doors discriminating, forcing them to conform to a gender identity.”
Oh, shut up, already!
“We could easily make those gender neutral and address the concerns that are out there about safety and comfort,” Riley said.”
Blah blah blah. Once again, it’s an “All About Me” scenario. There’s something funny (in a most unfunny way) about the fact that these demands invariably outstrip and exceed what is afforded under law to people with disabilities (i.e. “Reasonable Accommodation” standards), and certainly far beyond anything afforded to religious conscience.
BTW, aren’t most workplaces with just one bathroom already by default “unisex”? Or is the proposed ordinance saying that places with a men’s room and women’s room would now have to let everyone in?
HEY! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG????
Texas you have a problem. You need to contain and eliminate it or you will turn in to California.
Well it worked on Ally McBeal.
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