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Austin: Unisex bathroom ordinance proposed (Idiot alert)
KLBJ Radio ^ | Aug. 22, 2014 | Not specified

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


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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.

1 posted on 08/22/2014 6:23:55 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952
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To: Arrowhead1952

“Line length down; sexual assaults up.”


2 posted on 08/22/2014 6:26:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Arrowhead1952
"We're in regular contact with leaders within the LGBTQ community," Austin City Council member Chris Riley said.

I'll bet you are, Chris.

3 posted on 08/22/2014 6:27:15 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

well. for a one-holer it’s one thing, for a multi-holer it’s quite different


4 posted on 08/22/2014 6:28:13 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Arrowhead1952

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


5 posted on 08/22/2014 6:28:32 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Because life is all about what way you choose to have sex.

There is absolutely nothing more important than that.

Talk about pathetic.


6 posted on 08/22/2014 6:29:25 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Arrowhead1952

Yeah! Where are the urinals in the Ladies room?

Discrimination!


7 posted on 08/22/2014 6:31:58 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: ken5050

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?


8 posted on 08/22/2014 6:33:33 AM PDT by Rodamala
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9 posted on 08/22/2014 6:34:59 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
OK, this one is different:

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.

10 posted on 08/22/2014 6:35:13 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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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.


11 posted on 08/22/2014 6:36:47 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Arrowhead1952

This facility serves “Pointers and Setters”
arf


12 posted on 08/22/2014 6:38:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Good luck with that.

13 posted on 08/22/2014 6:40:59 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: camle
well. for a one-holer it’s one thing, for a multi-holer it’s quite different

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?

14 posted on 08/22/2014 6:40:59 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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“...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.


15 posted on 08/22/2014 6:44:18 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Arrowhead1952

“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?


16 posted on 08/22/2014 6:46:41 AM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

HEY! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG????


17 posted on 08/22/2014 6:48:14 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Texas you have a problem. You need to contain and eliminate it or you will turn in to California.


18 posted on 08/22/2014 6:48:30 AM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: camle

Well it worked on Ally McBeal.


19 posted on 08/22/2014 6:48:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Arrowhead1952
"What difference, at this point, does it make?"


20 posted on 08/22/2014 6:50:57 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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