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It would take 75 years for congresswomen to have any restrooms adjacent to the Senate floor. And in 2011, nearly a century after Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress, women lawmakers got their first bathroom near the House chamber.

In recent years, women lawmakers have had to use the private quarters of the Speaker of the House just to find a restroom that reliably stocks tampons and pads. Banning trans women from women’s restrooms would continue a long history at the U.S. Capitol of women lawmakers being forced to find alternate ways to simply do their job.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why don't they just install wall to wall tile on the Senate floor and a large liquid drain in the middle, then let everyone just piss and shit everywhere and throw feces at one another. It wouldn't affect their work output.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At the very least, the speaker's office does, I believe, have a chair behind the desk and if a trans congresswoman can't go to the bathroom, I'm guessing it's easy access.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's so stupid for a country as wealthy as America though ... why don't they just have 50 private bathrooms that anyone can use of any gender or identity one at a time in private. For politicians as wealthy as these idiots, it's a joke to think that they would prefer communal toilets like common people use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

You're solving a very different problem. You're addressing how to make restrooms better for all members of Congress.

The bill in question is about how to publicly hurt a minority group, in order to galvanize their supporters.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it either. I really don't care who is in a bathroom with me anyway. I don't go in there to make friends. I don't even know what they think she's going to do in there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm completely open and accepting of anyone of any identity. I'd enter and use a public bathroom with anyone as long as we were all safe.

But if I had the choice or the wealth, I would much rather prefer to just go to the toilet alone with no one else around of any gender, identity, religion, race, age, colour, species, terrestrial or extraterrestrial. I really don't like doing those things around other people.

If I had that much wealth and control, I'd want to pee or poop in peace and never sit or stand next to anyone while I was doing my business.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 1 day ago

Really, I don't see a reason why stalls couldn't be more like walled cubicles that would ensure total privacy.

[–] irotsoma 18 points 1 day ago

Why can't we just get private stalls with locks and not care about who is in the bathroom at all. I love when place have those, but they're so rare. We'd also need a lot fewer bathrooms and thus less space taken up by them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Missed opportunity to say "do their business"

[–] Rapidcreek 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've got a question. Who will enforce these "golden rules"? Who is the bathroom monitor?

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And how do you prove you're the "right" gender?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You show your junk to the toilet inspector and wait for the “duos habet et bene pendentes”.

[–] fsr1967 4 points 1 day ago

~~Matt Gaetz~~ nevermind, everyone in Congress is over 18.