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 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.
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?
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.
