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  • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

    An interim update from the EHRC, published in May, said that “trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities”.

    However, a response from Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), which supports around 455 non-national museums and is funded by the Scottish Government, said EHRC’s proposals may “force some museums to close”, or “risk leaving trans people with no facilities at all” if changes could not be made.

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    Can't they make all toilets unisex? In Sweden a lot of them don't device in male and female. You have your toilet with a sink to wash your hands and a mirror behind a closed door, problem solved.

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    • jeena@piefed.jeena.netJ [email protected]

      Can't they make all toilets unisex? In Sweden a lot of them don't device in male and female. You have your toilet with a sink to wash your hands and a mirror behind a closed door, problem solved.

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      Adding these is usually the way to solve it. There wouldn't be enough room to completely convert existing without losing a lot of capacity.

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      • jeena@piefed.jeena.netJ [email protected]

        Can't they make all toilets unisex? In Sweden a lot of them don't device in male and female. You have your toilet with a sink to wash your hands and a mirror behind a closed door, problem solved.

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        They could, but obviously these people would be against that. Because they don't have a rational objection, they're just bigots.

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        • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

          An interim update from the EHRC, published in May, said that “trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities”.

          However, a response from Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), which supports around 455 non-national museums and is funded by the Scottish Government, said EHRC’s proposals may “force some museums to close”, or “risk leaving trans people with no facilities at all” if changes could not be made.

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          Before long, it became clear that private toilet facilities were probably impossible to make work, and the only real option was to revert to public urination and defecation in the street, an option that had worked admirably for many centuries.

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          • jeena@piefed.jeena.netJ [email protected]

            Can't they make all toilets unisex? In Sweden a lot of them don't device in male and female. You have your toilet with a sink to wash your hands and a mirror behind a closed door, problem solved.

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            But that might mean there's only room or plumbing connections for (as an example) two or three toilets when there was a room that allowed 4 or 6 toilets. And now the reduced capacity runs against the rules set out in other building codes. I'm not going for or against just saying, see the problems?

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            • jeena@piefed.jeena.netJ [email protected]

              Can't they make all toilets unisex? In Sweden a lot of them don't device in male and female. You have your toilet with a sink to wash your hands and a mirror behind a closed door, problem solved.

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              The bar I used to work at just had a bunch of toilets in full enclosed stalls, a urinal section around the corner from that, and then communal sinks

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                Fascinating how some people are capable of creating problems out of nowhere. That's Trumponia-tier idiocy.

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                We can thank the TERFs and their fellow bigots for managing that.

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                • tal@lemmy.todayT [email protected]

                  Before long, it became clear that private toilet facilities were probably impossible to make work, and the only real option was to revert to public urination and defecation in the street, an option that had worked admirably for many centuries.

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                  Trans people and people who don't mind trans people get private stalls; TERFs can poo in public so everyone can see if a scary trans person bothers them. If they don't want to, they're welcome to use the stalls too.

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                  • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

                    An interim update from the EHRC, published in May, said that “trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities”.

                    However, a response from Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), which supports around 455 non-national museums and is funded by the Scottish Government, said EHRC’s proposals may “force some museums to close”, or “risk leaving trans people with no facilities at all” if changes could not be made.

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                    Gendered bathrooms have always been stupid. Everybody poops, everybody pees, it's good enough to just have a room where everyone can do that.

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                    • G [email protected]

                      Gendered bathrooms have always been stupid. Everybody poops, everybody pees, it's good enough to just have a room where everyone can do that.

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                      Bathroom stalls are nasty. Just have poop rooms with good ventilation and a community sink.

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                      • F [email protected]

                        The bar I used to work at just had a bunch of toilets in full enclosed stalls, a urinal section around the corner from that, and then communal sinks

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                        Yea this is a common layout for toilets in bars.

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                          Gendered bathrooms have always been stupid. Everybody poops, everybody pees, it's good enough to just have a room where everyone can do that.

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                          Oh fuck that. No way I want to line up behind 20 women when I need to drop a deuce

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                          • etal@lemmy.dbzer0.comE [email protected]

                            Oh fuck that. No way I want to line up behind 20 women when I need to drop a deuce

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                            I mean you could do separate lines or something for that— but at the same time maybe that just means you need more bathrooms if there is a significant line. Also maybe making a separate powder room would reduce the lines by directing those who want to do make up or something to a different place.

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                            • C [email protected]

                              I mean you could do separate lines or something for that— but at the same time maybe that just means you need more bathrooms if there is a significant line. Also maybe making a separate powder room would reduce the lines by directing those who want to do make up or something to a different place.

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                              This is the way. The shitter and the talking-shit areas should be separate.

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                              • jeena@piefed.jeena.netJ [email protected]

                                Can't they make all toilets unisex? In Sweden a lot of them don't device in male and female. You have your toilet with a sink to wash your hands and a mirror behind a closed door, problem solved.

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                                You have to do it right, but yes.

                                There is a school in the US that converted stalls into actual rooms, which was good. But the way the law was written, the area outside the stalls was considered a prohibited, unisex "changing area' because it was private rather than public. The solution was to make it a public handwashing area. But the way they did it was by cutting a window into the former "changing area" to make it public rather than private.

                                So it got reported by Republicans as a Democratic attempt to spy on kids in the bathroom. And since it was one of the bathrooms intended to accommodate trans students, it got reported as Republicans trying to spy on trans kids.

                                Basically, they did everything right, but pissed off everybody in the process.

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                                • C [email protected]

                                  I mean you could do separate lines or something for that— but at the same time maybe that just means you need more bathrooms if there is a significant line. Also maybe making a separate powder room would reduce the lines by directing those who want to do make up or something to a different place.

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                                  Wait are you saying they´re taking up bathroom stalls to do their makeup??

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                                  • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

                                    An interim update from the EHRC, published in May, said that “trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities”.

                                    However, a response from Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), which supports around 455 non-national museums and is funded by the Scottish Government, said EHRC’s proposals may “force some museums to close”, or “risk leaving trans people with no facilities at all” if changes could not be made.

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                                    No worries, I'll just hold it until I find a politician to piss on

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                                    • V [email protected]

                                      They could, but obviously these people would be against that. Because they don't have a rational objection, they're just bigots.

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                                      I read this the opposite way.

                                      Scottish museums are objecting to an anti-trans judgement from the UK. They are saying that if trans-women can't use the women's bathroom, and trans-men can't use the men's bathroom, then they have to close. They're being allies.

                                      It's based on a recent case where Scotland's highest court stated that a person's gender could change based on a doctor's authority, and this was overturned on appeal by a UK judge.

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                                      • etal@lemmy.dbzer0.comE [email protected]

                                        Oh fuck that. No way I want to line up behind 20 women when I need to drop a deuce

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                                        The fun thing is tha t by combining them you reduce the waiting tolime overall for everyone together, while making it a bit longer for the now privileged.

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                                        • bell@lemmy.worldB [email protected]

                                          But that might mean there's only room or plumbing connections for (as an example) two or three toilets when there was a room that allowed 4 or 6 toilets. And now the reduced capacity runs against the rules set out in other building codes. I'm not going for or against just saying, see the problems?

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                                          I see the problem that someone planned it wrong and now it needs to be corrected.

                                          But also it's not like it costs an arm and a leg to do it.

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