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A district judge in Wisconsin has sided with an 11-year-old trans girl over her use of the girls’ toilets and temporarily blocked school officials from preventing her access.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good lord they are only 11 years old. Who cares what bathroom they use.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Make them all unisex. If it's a large facility with a bunch of stalls or a small facility for only one person, make them all unisex.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I went to a club with only one, huge, unisex bathroom once. It was.. like any other bathroom. Seeing people of the opposite gender wasn't really a concern anyways.

Since it was a rather yuge bathroom for a yuge club, if there was any shenanigans going on there would've been plenty of witnesses to call it out.

There was even one guy who went piss at a urinal, and started to leave without washing his hands. All the other guys started shouting at the guy to was his hands lol.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You could go take a shit together on your first date

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. And get rid of that creepy door gap while you're at it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I hate those gaps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s only America that has pervert friendly toilet gaps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, there is safety in numbers and consequently I also see a benefit to combining them. I'm a dude, and I would rather walk down a busy pedestrian mall than a sketchy half-empty street or an urban trail on a moonless night.

Same thing with bathrooms. I imagine women feel better in a bathroom where other women and other people are present and aware, vs a nearly empty bathroom where a creep could walk in and isolate them at any moment. I've been to places with large unisex bathrooms (hot springs, spas, etc.) and there's enough people in there that no one is gonna try anything stupid/inappropriate without being immediately noticed. Bathroom troublemakers are a small subset of the universally large group of people who have to use the restroom anyway.

I only support gender-segregated bathrooms because I don't want a bunch of chicks clogging up the mensroom with their slow pissing/shitting/bloody paper towels on the floor. :D I am unreasonable and self-centered, but anyone who has ever been to a concert knows which line is longer.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

Pretty much only conservatives. They're actually pretty obsessed with thinking about children being raped in bathrooms.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to separate the bathrooms by function!

Number ones on the left number twos on the right!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Now the problem with that would be that then people would only use the pissing bathroom, because who would want to poop with other people? I sure wouldn't.