“How hard is it to just give them their own restroom?”
At one point the facility I worked at in Tallahassee had several hundred men and a handful, probably six to ten, women. At the fifteen minute breaks dozens, sometimes a hundred men would go outside and pee in the bushes. I went to the facility manager with a plan to increase the number of urinals. There was sufficient wall space and all that was needed was some additional plumbing. He said, “We had that plumbing. We took it out and tiled over it. That’s because we have the ‘potty parity law’ here. That means that if there’s a urinal for a man, then there must be a full closet flush toilet for a woman. To comply with the law takes (forgot the amount of space, but a lot) and we don’t have that much space. So we had to remove twenty-one urinals.” He then pointed to a shelf full of notebooks. “Those are the rules and regulations for who gets what in a public building.”
So, in answer to your question, the number and type of bathrooms is highly regulated and you can’t get approvals to change what’s allocated easily. And, if the point is to force you to comply with their social mandate, then you could forget about any approvals that don’t force you to allow opposite sexes to use the same facilities. (Obviously, you’re a racist for suggesting this. /s)
The reason EVERYTHING looks the way it does, from the setbacks on our roads, to the uniformity of public signs, to the way neighborhoods are arranged into suburbs and commercial districts with little or no mixing, is because of rules, regulations and planning. If you wanted to build something, say a school, it might take three years of planning and approvals. A power plant or refinery might take ten years and millions of dollars before you put the first brick into place. There are people who spend their whole career doing just a portion of this planning. There are law offices who specialize in handling nothing else.
A facility I worked at had to hire a highly paid full time person just to verify compliance with all the federal, state, county and city EPA’s and he told me the various laws changed so fast that her really needed a full time staff.
You know that all makes sense.
I appreciate you presenting it. It certainly does put things
in perspective.
When I joined the Navy in 1970 the restroom, (head), on ship had a large stainless steal trough for urinating. It was large enough for 20 guys to pee into it and it flowed into a single drain. Someone could convert one toilet into a similar system that would, technically, act as one urinal.