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.
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.
Missed opportunity to say “do their business”
I’ve got a question. Who will enforce these “golden rules”? Who is the bathroom monitor?
Matt Gaetznevermind, everyone in Congress is over 18.And how do you prove you’re the “right” gender?
You show your junk to the toilet inspector and wait for the “duos habet et bene pendentes”.
I hope she dresses in the most provacative over-the-top hyper-femme style imaginable and spends twenty minutes of every lunch rush looming over the urinals heckling and mocking any man who dares try to use them.
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
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None of the bathrooms at my work do this. Officially my job doesn’t let me keep my purse/bag near the work area (I do anyway, and my bosses acknowledge corporate policy is written by lizard people) and I have to grab pads/tampons and stuff them in my pockets before using the restroom.
Are you telling me they just have a ladies room with supplies available? That seems nice. My job doesn’t pay people well so they’d probably get
stolenhoarded by people who need them more than me.Though, my job treats trans people like humans and lets trans ladies use the ladies room, so we got that going for us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Really, I don’t see a reason why stalls couldn’t be more like walled cubicles that would ensure total privacy.
