Target stores bravely allow you to choose your restroom

[Weetabix]

Continuing to Stand for Inclusivity

Target has bravely joined the ranks of progressive businesses and communities that encourage you to use their plumbing that matches your gender identity rather than matches your own plumbing.

I'm going to go to the local Target and use the women's room. For that 5 minutes, I'll identify as an Asian Woman.

Plus, I've always suspected that women's rooms were nicer than men's rooms, and that's not faaaaaair.

On further reflection, I suppose I could identify as "gender curious." That would be true, since I wonder if their restrooms are nicer.

[dfwmtx]

I'm surprised at all these conservative men who're comfortable with the thought of the drag-iest of drag queens coming into the men's restroom, hiking up their skirts and letting loose in the urinals, then washing their hands and checking their makeup before they leave the men's restroom. It just shows you how misunderstood the conservative male is. We need to correct the public's thinking here, because currently liberals are trying to slander these bathroom laws based on the incorrect thinking "they don't want male-to-female folks using the women's restroom because they think the MTFs are only doing it to spy on or take advantage of women". We need to correct their way of thinking and insist "no, we're comfortable with crossdressing men using the men's restroom. Go ahead, let 'em buff their nails and do their makeup while the rest of us whizz and fart away! And trust us, there'll be no guys who trying to rape the MTFs in the men's restroom because they think feminine-looking guys are fair game."

And where's the Breitbart folks when you really need them? We need to make sure there's separate restrooms so the female-to-male transfolks don't take advantage of the male-to-female transfolks. And there needs to be separate restrooms to accommodate the two-spirit folks, a stall for each spirit. And any Asian-owned places need a separate restroom for the hijra as well. And maybe a separate room with astroturf or fake bushes so that the otherkin (folks who think they're really animals) can pee without being forced to use toilets (and this'll be great because it'll allow people's disability or therapy animals to have a place to go, but I guess we might need to end up doing the same thing here in case some otherkin identifies as a female cat when he's a male human gets offended when some stressed-out liberal's therapy dog comes in the room at the same time). /Johnathan Swift

And in the far-far future, maybe one day architects will just throw up their hands and say "fuckit, fuckitall!" and they'll stop designing communal, sex-segregated restrooms, and instead make each separate stall into its own small restroom with toilet,sink, mirror, handicap(able) rails, trashcan, and baby-changing table.

Transgender terminology gives me a headache. And I still don't grasp of hold of what this 'cis' stuff is about. LGBTBBQNWTF?

And FYI, there've been more cases of violence against male-to-female transfolks done by women when the crossdresser goes into the women's restroom, and cases of women assaulted by male-to-female transfolks in the women's restroom.

[JAG2955]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mLjKI968g

Professor Farnsworth says it better than I ever could.

[JustinR]

I would go test this policy at Target later today, but I think in Texas I would still be hauled off in handcuffs, rightfully so.

This transgender/CIS/pansexual crap is just another liberal progressive way to erase any semblance of boundaries and order in our culture. Trying to explain it to my sheltered 14 year old BIL whose father died of cancer two years ago makes my head hurt.

[Old Grafton]

Long ago in a factory far, far away I cleaned the restrooms when TRIF'd from my heavy assembly job. The Men's needed mopped once a shift, check paper products, stayed relatively clean. Hosed the whole place and sanitized it once a week. The Women's had to be hosed DAILY and sanitized. There are very few women who will actually touch their butt with a toilet seat; based on my experience I believe most just hang it somewhere near and spray. There were napkin/tampon bags provided; most of the time I'd find TP-wrapped nasties on the floor next to the toilets even though EACH. LARGE. stall. had a stomp-open sanitary can. No, Men's Rooms in any decent place are far "nicer" than the (ha!)'Ladies' Rooms.YMMV but that's my experience. (And they wanted the Company to put a LUNCH TABLE in there!! )

[Weetabix]

Actually, now you mention it, I remember. I worked night shifts in a gas station in a nicer part of Houston while I was in college. Bathroom cleaning happened during the night shift, and the women's was much worse than the men's for the reason you mentioned - I think they all hovered.

[MarkD]

Uh huh.

Men have the usual piss dribbles, or shit on the back of the toilet seat that you more or less expect (and in your own home you clean up). Women not only hover and piss on everything, they try to hide their feminine necessaries. My wife is frequently grossed out by her ladies room at work.

Hint, if you don't hover, there's no REASON to hover since there won't be any pee on the seat.

[evan price]

I still don't understand all the nonsense about who uses what bathroom.
IF nature calls and you are eliminating why does it matter which bathroom you use?
On the other hand if you are there to be a perv, then being a perv is the problem, not which hole your piss goes into.
FFS why are people making this a big deal?
Let people use the toilets as toilets.
Let people stomp the pervs a new stoma.

[mekender]

Long ago in a factory far, far away I cleaned the restrooms when TRIF'd from my heavy assembly job. The Men's needed mopped once a shift, check paper products, stayed relatively clean. Hosed the whole place and sanitized it once a week. The Women's had to be hosed DAILY and sanitized. There are very few women who will actually touch their butt with a toilet seat; based on my experience I believe most just hang it somewhere near and spray. There were napkin/tampon bags provided; most of the time I'd find TP-wrapped nasties on the floor next to the toilets even though EACH. LARGE. stall. had a stomp-open sanitary can. No, Men's Rooms in any decent place are far "nicer" than the (ha!)'Ladies' Rooms.YMMV but that's my experience. (And they wanted the Company to put a LUNCH TABLE in there!! )

Lack of spending their entire lives aiming might explain the low numbers of women shooters...

[Weetabix]

I still don't understand all the nonsense about who uses what bathroom.
IF nature calls and you are eliminating why does it matter which bathroom you use?
On the other hand if you are there to be a perv, then being a perv is the problem, not which hole your piss goes into.
FFS why are people making this a big deal?
Let people use the toilets as toilets.
Let people stomp the pervs a new stoma.

Here are some problems as I see them:
1. If I'm at a urinal, I don't want a woman wandering in. I'm kinda funny that way.
1.a. I especially don't want one under, say, 35 wandering in because of the multitude of possible perceptions in any direction.
2. I don't want a guy walking into a stall next to my daughter and splashing and dribbling or making the various guy noises that come from a stall. Maybe women make those noises, too. I don't know. But it seems more polite for neither set to know what noises the other makes.
3. If there are perverts involved, who is going to be in there policing them? I'm not much interested in needing that, either.

On the other hand, what exactly is wrong with having the other-identified use those ubiquitous single-stall handicap/family restrooms? They're everywhere.