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And bathrooms
The only reason we have sex based bathrooms is because the women's bathrooms used to say colored on them and we never got the building codes changed.
Thats not true. The history of segerated bathrooms are worse than that... during the Victorian era, public bathrooms were men only. Women were not expected to travel from their home, or carry piss pots with them. Women had to fight for their right to have access to facilities. Also employers used the excuse of lack of women facilities to not hire women. The reason segerated bathrooms exist in building codes are because of decades of women fighting for their rights...
Dont pin it on racism on good old fashion sexism.
Ah yes, that's why in the rest of the world that didn't do racially segregated bathrooms there are only unisex bathrooms.
Most of the world has unisex bathrooms
Pretty much any large enough venue will have urinals, anywhere in the world.
I'm not sure what gave you that idea.
Have you spent much time in europe or south America?
It isn't nearly as common outside the US, even in more developed countries
The only sexual harassment that I hear about in restrooms are either trans people being harassed or cisgender people being accused of being trans. Both of these problems go away when you have desegregated restrooms.
Sure, but they're more likely to harass you if the law is on their side. If we only made laws that everybody would follow, then there would be no laws.
You aren't a victim when someone you don't like uses the bathroom
Yeah man, because it's definitely the trans kid doing the pee-pee dance and not the officer snapping coochie picks for "safety" we should be worrying about.
I think they were talking about coed bathrooms, not about letting trans people pick the bathroom that matches their gender.
I personally agree that coed bathrooms would likely result in more sexual harassment/assaults.
That's the same argument from a different false equivalency. Co-ed bathrooms exist all around the world. The fact that uncle Jim can't stop fantasizing about watching someone pee shouldn't stop other men from using the public restroom.
It's called the Internet Jim. Look it up.