If somehow you don’t get beaten for being in the wrong stall or because your haircut makes someone “uncomfortable” a process still starts when we restrict access to bathrooms and what started as humiliating is now significantly damaging your health.
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People with no options who try relieving themselves elsewhere can find themselves on a sex offender registry, and trying to use the bathroom discretely at a facility that doesn’t explicitly offer bathrooms to the public can be charged with trespassing.
aug 9, 2025, 4:58 pm • 177 18 • view
Young people in places that don’t offer safe bathroom access regularly try to hold all day or stop going to school at all. And “just using the nurse’s bathroom” or whatever half solutions schools offer risks outing students. Ostracized and humiliated, many just disappear from public life altogether.
aug 9, 2025, 5:05 pm • 195 18 • view
I also hope people take a moment to think what this means for unhoused people who also have no regular access to clean water. Sanitation isn’t just about being clean, it’s about the most basic things we need to live. Laws of exclusion, against anyone, decimate human health.
aug 9, 2025, 5:18 pm • 164 29 • view
Thank you for this thread.
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You’re welcome 🖤
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I hope San Diego learned its lesson but I doubt it
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You are very correct…real issues like this are being overwhelmed by all of the societal destruction being caused by trump and republicans…and they don’t care.
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Thank you so much for this. It is such important information - and there was a lot that I hadn’t thought about. Slightly worried about what my never having a wee at work over years working in the community means, but sure it’s fine!
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