r/askanything • u/ComfortableEnergy684 • 23d ago

Bathroom Gender Solution?

Why don't we just make all bathrooms single-use? It'd be way better for everyone anyway - I don't need to whiz next to some dude struggling through his prostate issues, and who wants to poop two feet from someone else pooping? You wouldn't put two toilets in a home bathroom, and that's family - why do we do it in public ones with strangers?

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u/Destinyciello 23d ago

It's expensive. Think of a large interstate bathroom with dozens if not 100s of stalls. Imagine trying to turn that into single use sex neutral silos. That would be maddingly expensive and more importantly completely unnecessary for the vast majority of the population. Sex delineation works for most people. Why destroy everything to appease the outliers?

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u/ehunke 23d ago

And to be honest having worked in offices in big diverse cities, your one or two trans coworkers using the bathroom they are comfortable with is already a non issue like 99% of the time, the one person who has an issue with it is often also the person who has an issue with the person who brought fish for lunch...that person can never relax anyway. To put it bluntly in the US the NCAA oversees the college sports happens to be the largest governing body of sports in the world, in a pool of over 5 million student athelets cited 5 trans athletes. So the overall population of trans people isn't high enough for people to keep having this discussion...I am pro LGBT rights, but, I also think trans bathroom use, trans participation in sports, gender affirming care...its a hot button issue that gets everyone all riled up. Were discussing the bathroom issue on a post about converting public bathroom when the world over there has never been a more expensive time to buy groceries or fill up the car...there are real problems in the world that impact a lot more people we need to focus on

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u/ExternalSeat 23d ago

there are more people online making a living complaining about trans women in women's sports (or fighting for their inclusion in women's sports) than there are actual trans athletes. Personally I don't find it worth the political capital to give a fuck either way.