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Letter: Stop the 'madness' of universal washrooms in Burnaby schools (www.burnabynow.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Spatialfiend@lemmy.ca to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca

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Honestly I'm on the fence about this. There are probably some good reasons for this and equally bad reasons, but I don't think the kids really care though.

A previous article was written by somebody in my neighborhood who was against this. Not sure she wants to talk to me anymore because I didn't completely buy in to her side of it.. she is 80 though. I'm not going to sit there and argue with an 80 year old lady in the street.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Sometimes sex-based washrooms can be useful; urinals are faster and cleaner to use, and don’t take up as much space as a stall.

But I’ve been using universal washrooms for decades, and in most contexts there hasn’t been anyone complaining. Universal washrooms just take up more space.

So what exactly is it that people are suddenly concerned about? The reason the washrooms were built that way in the first place?