Bathrooms. Is it time to give up?

[Christobal]

I really don't care who is peeing next to me. Well I don't like the guy standing next to me while we pee shoulder to shoulder at the urinal and there is not enough space not to touch me. My own hangup I suppose, I don't like people touching me while I pee. The judicial system seems to be going down the route of use the bathroom which most matches how you feel about your identity rather than your current peeing plumbing.

There are already family bathrooms where you can take your kids with you. Maybe all bathrooms should have stalls for privacy but gender and kids don't matter. Just a sign on the door that say bathroom.

 

[stickygirl]

Transgender people can use whatever bathroom they want. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go. They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate, there has been so little trouble.

 

[Tryharder62]

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This is the only time I will discuss my bathroom preferences. I want to be alone in a stall. ( I am female ) Everybody should have a stall. If there is pee on the seat an alarm will go off. If we share - no more urinals. I don't want to see it. Plus urinals stink. There must be standard rules. Everyone is to put the seat back down however you go. Also the toilet paper needs to be uniformly hung with the paper going over not under.

There should also be one or two independent family or child facilities that parents can help a child or a child can go in ALONE!! It is all about the kids.

That is all!

 

[Darbhinder]

This is the only time I will discuss my bathroom preferences. I want to be alone in a stall. ( I am female ) Everybody should have a stall. If there is pee on the seat an alarm will go off. If we share - no more urinals. I don't want to see it. Plus urinals stink. There must be standard rules. Everyone is to put the seat back down however you go. Also the toilet paper needs to be uniformly hung with the paper going over not under.

There should also be one or two independent family or child facilities that parents can help a child or a child can go in ALONE!! It is all about the kids.

That is all!

Another woman who doesn't know how to put a toilet seat down for herself!

 

[Christobal]

Transgender people can use whatever bathroom they want. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go. They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate, there has been so little trouble.

I agree. The question I was trying to ask is if it has become time to say no gender assigned bathrooms. I admit I'm confused by my own words. I would never take a bath in there. I also don't go in there to rest. Never expecting to see a sign on the door "hey this is this piss and shit room." but isn't that's what it's really all about.

 

[pensivepoet]

This is the only time I will discuss my bathroom preferences. I want to be alone in a stall. ( I am female ) Everybody should have a stall. If there is pee on the seat an alarm will go off. If we share - no more urinals. I don't want to see it. Plus urinals stink. There must be standard rules. Everyone is to put the seat back down however you go. Also the toilet paper needs to be uniformly hung with the paper going over not under.

There should also be one or two independent family or child facilities that parents can help a child or a child can go in ALONE!! It is all about the kids.

That is all!

Sorry, but I like the t/p under and I'm a man, so I win.
Pfffft!

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I study 19th Century American history, our real history.

Every generation changes the facts for the earlier generations, to justify current practices.

But the facts are stubborn things and remain in the newspapers and letters etc. to be discovered, and cans of worms opened anew.

Like, marriage licenses came along to conceal premarital sex. Plenty of places got a visit from a circuit riding parson infrequently but couples got the license at the courthouse, to cover their monkey business legally.

 

[Tryharder62]

Another woman who doesn't know how to put a toilet seat down for herself!

I don't want to touch it! EWWWWW!

 

[Tryharder62]

Sorry, but I like the t/p under and I'm a man, so I win.
Pfffft!

Not if your hoping to get any!

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[RobDownSouth]

Okay, story time.

One year our local school board had an interesting situation: they had a student who was a hermaphrodite. Both sets of sex organs, both fully functional. The parents had enough foresight to name their child "Jamie" which was pretty gender neutral. They opted to raise the child as a boy.

The kid experienced early onset puberty (evidently quite common in this situation) and it became apparent that the kid was leaning toward the female side.

Over the summer they allowed the kid to grow their hair out, shave legs, moved to a different county, and enrolled Jamie as a "female" student. The parent worked with the school board to make this as seamless and painless a transition as possible. And....it worked.

I wonder how the opinionated folks here on Lit would feel if their daughters were sharing a bathroom with this "boy"?

 

[pensivepoet]

Not if your hoping to get any!

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You just made that up

 

[stickygirl]

I agree. The question I was trying to ask is if it has become time to say no gender assigned bathrooms. I admit I'm confused by my own words. I would never take a bath in there. I also don't go in there to rest. Never expecting to see a sign on the door "hey this is this piss and shit room." but isn't that's what it's really all about.

There is a cost implication that I can appreciate, but how guys can put up with the stench around urinals is a mystery.
Will there be more gender neutral facilities - probably, but genderless/shared facilities - I doubt it in anyone's lifetime because gender is so engrained in our culture. I second the comment about dribbles on seats and add that I seem to spend the first few seconds in the stall flushing away someone else's turd. Some men and women have zero sense of decency.
Any guys that come bursting into the Ladies are either drunk or out to shock. Women that go into a Mens facility are angry at the queue and don't want to burst their bladder - and guys aren't too bothered if they do.
Pedophiles don't dress up as women to chase children - they are far more subtle about their crimes. There are pedos that prefer victims of their own sex but they probably don't use restrooms as their modus operandi either - I really don't know and I can't be bothered to rush off and cite any dodgy web-based research.
btw - I didn't say that about trans people - Trump did

 

[Tryharder62]

You just made that up

Actually it is toilet paper science.

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[stickygirl]

Actually it is toilet paper science.

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My works paper dispensers hold the paper perpendicular to the wall
Does that make it roll-neutral?
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Will this keep both sides happy?
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Who uses both sides anyway? eeeww

 

[Tryharder62]

My works paper dispensers hold the paper perpendicular to the wall
Does that make it roll-neutral?

I don't know, but just pondering this unknown is making me slightly anxious. The two roll solution might work as long as it is not possible in any way for the two rolls to touch.

 

[Darbhinder]

Female impersonators should not be allowed in the woman's washrooms.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Everyone is to put the seat back down however you go.

Why? I think the seat should be placed in the upright position.

 

[Rachel_X]

Not if your hoping to get any!

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This a capital offense in my house.

 

[Tryharder62]

Female impersonators should not be allowed in the woman's washrooms.

I think it depends on who they are impersonating. I would let Cher impersonators in. Love me that Cher.

 

[Tryharder62]

Why? I think the seat should be placed in the upright position.

Isn't that only if you're in an airplane?

 

[Ubiquitious_too]

If you still have a dick, please use the mens' room.

 

[Tryharder62]

Then again maybe we should just have porta potty's outside and everyone will wait until they get home.

 

[Saint Peter]

Go ahead and leave the seat down.

My aim is not that bad.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Keep Republicans out of our bathrooms.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Keep Republicans out of our bathrooms.

That's awesome!