trans, maybe uncomf 

@kaia i always find it amusing that at dayjob office they have "gender-neutral" toilets and "woman-friendly" toilets. Both are single-occupant separate rooms, but i guess "woman-friendly" have female hygiene supplies in them or something, but I like the implications that other kind can be seen as "woman-hostile"

@hj @kaia
I have a friend who is TERF and as far as I understand, they aren't uncomfortable about trans person using the toilet, they mostly just don't care, but that this approach would be exploited by genuine perverts (maybe not the correct term, but let's go with it), to enter women toilets. No one expects this to be widespread even, but there is a possibility and as it always was, people want to be rather safe than sorry.

@m0xee @hj
then the solution would be fixing toilets. US toilets are the worst with their half height dividers you can look through
@kaia @hj @m0xee

just make all public bathrooms all-gender. You will suddenly get pushback from people that pretend to be progressive though.
@sun @kaia @hj @m0xee make them single locked stalls, they should not be communal full stop
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@arcana @kaia @hj @sun
That would also make waiting queues to these unified restrooms as long as they currently are to women's 😂
That's the downside of it that I see, but it might be big. On the one hand, making it one bigger room would probably help, on the other — lots of businesses like fast-food restaurants would use it as an excuse to make it even smaller to save space and use it for something else, so the queues might become even longer 😩

@arcana @kaia @hj @m0xee if you are a small business you can have two rooms. if you are a bigger business you can good stalls or fewer private rooms. if you are a stadium or an airport, people just have to accept less privacy. everything is a tradeoff, there is no way around it.
@sun @kaia @hj @m0xee queues, higher prices to reduce usage, people being encouraged to go before they arrive at the airport or stadium. I’ve done my flying days where I arrive at an airport in one country at 4am, transfer over 3 hours in another, and then fly for 8 hours.

I pee once before I leave and pee when I finally arrive.
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