I’ve seen a solution in San Francisco that would probably work anywhere: gender-neutral bathrooms. The stalls are in fact individual rooms (walled off from floor to ceiling), with a shared area with sinks & mirrors. A father could accompany his daughter and ensure her safety (while guarding the entrance to the “room”), and companies could halve the space set aside for bathrooms (though there would be longer lines if just one set was kept). No urinals or public lewdness, and one could probably place cameras in the shared area without privacy/peeping issues - do your business in the “rooms”, and the rest is basically public unrestricted space.
Makes this whole issue moot.
My local Kroger store has 2 gender neutral, side by side bathrooms and has been that way since the store opened. I HATE IT with a passion and will go home before I will use them. I went in there once when the store opened and the toilet seat was up, urine on the bowl. My husband and son get away with that at home, but I can’t deal with a strangers uncleanliness. I prefer my public restrooms as women only. Men are gross.
I wrote our governor (NC) describing exactly the same thing.
There would be no constitutional issues, whether imaginary or real.
Who pays for it?
Not exactly a moot point.
Let these several hundred ‘confused individuals’ fork over the millions to redo bathrooms so they can feel more comfortable.
The expense shouldn’t be passed onto the millions who are against this monstrosity.
“A father could accompany his daughter and ensure her safety (while guarding the entrance to the “room”), “
So “cover me, im going for a piss”? Did you even hear yourself? And cameras? Mens and womens rooms worked since restrooms were invented. Why is the San Francisco solution anything anyone would want? Its more expensive, and more creepy.
“The stalls are in fact individual rooms (walled off from floor to ceiling), with a shared area with sinks & mirrors.”
I recently attended a race on a cold winter day where there were 40 or so portolets inside of a tent with a shared hand washing station. This worked well for this situation as there were enough people coming and going and the tent was was fairly open-air enough to make it safe.
No thanks to going into an remote, enclosed area in stores or buildings (or locker rooms!) with men next to women in shared areas with sinks and mirrors.
“The stalls are in fact individual rooms (walled off from floor to ceiling), with a shared area with sinks & mirrors.”
may work for normal people, but for a person with devious intent - fully walled stalls (as I have seen in some store/resturaunt restrooms) can be unsafe for the normal customer.
If used at off peak store hours a woman or child can easily be followed and pushed into one and assaulted.
Also if a person is using the fully walled stall alone and has a medical issue, how will anyone know? It would take much longer for another customer coming in to notice, probably until the next time employees clean. Or if the lock gets stuck for young or old user and they have trouble getting out?
Nope. Not giving up urinals. Deal with it.
Yes, makes sense, because the way things are going, the small minority is taking control of the control with big businesses getting behind them with their boycotts. But they will never boycott Muslim countries who kill LGBT’s.
I will not allow my grand-children to go into bathrooms by themselves anymore.
I truly believe the day is coming for Pedophiles to have equal rights next.
Boycotts work just fine. Lawsuits are for sexual assaults committed due to Target’s carelessness.