Reminder that Sarah McBride is the first out transgender woman elected to congress. The Republicans are specifically targeting her and future transgender representatives by banning them their gendered restrooms of choice. As always, cruelty is the point.
In elementary school, the bathroom was a large room with stalls all around and a foot-activated-fountain-thingy in the middle to wash your hands.
It was perfectly fine and non-gendered.
Around here, most restaurants have 2+ fully enclosed single-user bathrooms instead of multiple stalls, so gendering those is especially useless.
Was this your school?
If I have to shit, and the men’s room is taking too long, I’m going to go shit in the women’s room, idgaf. I’m not messy, but I will be shittin’ regardless of consequence.
If I encounter a woman actually in there while I’m running in, I just say I’m sorry, this could not have been stopped, rush into a stall, and it’s never an issue. Who the fuck is making this an issue?
Another anecdote, I’ve been in bars where I’ve been a little too drunk, wandered into the women’s, gotten to the wash my hands phase, and then been confronted by a woman also washing her hands and every single time (only like 2-3 times) they’ve always just laughed with me, I’ve apologized, and we both went about our business.
Third anecdote, I’ve worked in many places and had to clean both women’s and men’s bathrooms, gals, y’all are fuckin reckless in there, I don’t even see why people would want to use those bathrooms. Men’s bathrooms aren’t spotless and perfect or anything, but I’ve seen some tragedies in women’s bathrooms.
Tragedies in women’s bathrooms: There have always been some, and with the loss of appropriate medical care for miscarriages and abortions, there’s going to be a lot more.