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Here's a simple idea that would render these "bathroom bills" null and void. Neuter them, if you will. Stop building multi-occupant public restrooms with a gen

Here's a simple idea that would render these "bathroom bills" null and void. Neuter them, if you will. Stop building multi-occupant public restrooms with a gender designation, and instead build several single-occupant public restrooms with no gender designation. Added bonus: Not only do we disarm these attempts to discriminate against transgendered people, we also avoid all the social awkwardness that comes from multi-occupant restrooms. Like the loud person talking on their cell phone. Or the smells of other people doing their thing. (Retrofitting would be expensive, but don't make that part mandatory.)

jobigoud 11y ago
We had single-person restrooms at my previous work, shared by multiple companies. In one building they were gender neutral. As far as I can see, everyone was fine with it. Then we moved to another building where the bathrooms had gender pictograms on them although they were identical in every other respect. Some males eventually went to the female-stamped bathroom when the other was occupied. And someone attached a note in the female bathroom to remind everyone that this was a female-only bathroom…