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UNT Offering Unisex Bathrooms
WBAP 24/7 News ^ | September 28, 2009 | WBAP

Posted on 09/28/2009 10:21:49 AM PDT by manic4organic

Denton (WBAP News) - The University of North Texas has announced that it will soon be offering something unique to students, faculty and visitors, unisex bathrooms.


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KEYWORDS: homosexuality; northtexas; universities
Denton (WBAP News) - The University of North Texas has announced that it will soon be offering something unique to students, faculty and visitors, unisex bathrooms.

The restrooms will be placed in the lobbies of nearly all of its dormitories, as well as in the dining rooms.

The facilities will be very similar to the so-called family bathrooms currently being used in Metroplex movie theaters and shopping malls.

The president of the Residence Hall Association says the private, single-stall unisex restrooms are designed to help transgender students feel more at ease on the Denton campus. He believes the move will help improve the sense of community at the school.

(Copyright 2009 WBAP 24/7 News. All Rights Reserved.)

1 posted on 09/28/2009 10:21:49 AM PDT by manic4organic
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To: manic4organic

Didn’t see this posted yet.


2 posted on 09/28/2009 10:23:36 AM PDT by manic4organic (We Are S0 Screwed)
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To: manic4organic

They cannot stop appeasing...


3 posted on 09/28/2009 10:24:09 AM PDT by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: manic4organic

They only have one stall, so sounds okay to me, though not the reason.


4 posted on 09/28/2009 10:25:11 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: manic4organic

As a UNT grad, I am sad.


5 posted on 09/28/2009 10:26:17 AM PDT by Vasilli22
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To: manic4organic

Hey, I’m all about the one-holers...although catering to the trannies is an odd rationale.


6 posted on 09/28/2009 10:26:30 AM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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To: manic4organic

Great. Now guys get to stand in line along with wimmin waiting for the chick to get out of the derned stall.


7 posted on 09/28/2009 10:26:32 AM PDT by Grunthor (Gun toting, Bible thumping Flag waver. According to the left, I am a racist.)
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To: manic4organic

I feel sorry for the young women.

Being a man with two sons, I can admit that I understand why women do not want to follow us after using the facilities.

Also, remember to wipe the seat!


8 posted on 09/28/2009 10:26:46 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: xjcsa

...and by one-holers I mean bathrooms with only one toilet...guess I should clarify that, haha...


9 posted on 09/28/2009 10:27:09 AM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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To: wac3rd

I have no problem with places wanting to put in unisex bathrooms as a matter of convenience and way to attract customers. What I Loathe and Hate is when some group or lawyer or person coerces and demands that an existing facility be modified to add them.

It is the whole “Government Intrusion angle” that I am against, not the bathrooms themselves.


10 posted on 09/28/2009 10:27:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: manic4organic

So, having a single room, with a single toilet and sink, that is available to the general public is now news worthy? The lobbies of a great many law offices, major corporations and small bussinesses alike are decades ahead of the University of North Texas.

This is hardly new; and claiming it is for ‘transgendered’ freaks is simply a ploy to advertize your new potty. What’s next, cafeterias providing both left handed, and right handed coffee mugs?


11 posted on 09/28/2009 10:28:13 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: manic4organic

“improve the sense of community”

by slapping around the sensibilites of the majority


12 posted on 09/28/2009 10:29:49 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: manic4organic

Craptacular!


13 posted on 09/28/2009 10:29:53 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: manic4organic

“that giant flushing sound you hear........”


14 posted on 09/28/2009 10:31:04 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: All

College kids, booze and unisex bathrooms... sounds like a recipe for disaster.


15 posted on 09/28/2009 10:31:23 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: manic4organic

Will the feminists now want men penalized for aiming poorly ?


16 posted on 09/28/2009 10:31:35 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: manic4organic

This will have predictable consequences — all restrooms will become men’s rooms (what woman in her right mind would want to use them).


17 posted on 09/28/2009 10:31:36 AM PDT by Juan Medén
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To: xjcsa
Hey, I’m all about the one-holers...

Now that's something I would never say here....or aloud anywhere.

: )

18 posted on 09/28/2009 10:31:50 AM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Osage Orange
Now that's something I would never say here....or aloud anywhere.

Haha...PLEASE see my clarification a couple posts down; it took me one second too long to realize how people might read that...

19 posted on 09/28/2009 10:32:58 AM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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To: manic4organic
The president of the Residence Hall Association says the private, single-stall unisex restrooms are designed to help transgender students feel more at ease on the Denton campus. He believes the move will help improve the sense of community at the school.

A sense of community?? What sophistry.

I would like to know how many transgender students there are as opposed to everyone else at that university. My guess is that it is miniscule.

20 posted on 09/28/2009 10:33:14 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: manic4organic

A couple of years ago, my wife and I were in Washington State on a trip and stopped in a small gas station for a break. I was in the rest room using a urinal when the door flew open and a very attractive young “lady” ran in and proceeded to take a dump without a so much as “excuse me”! I noticed the California plates when they drove off.


21 posted on 09/28/2009 10:35:51 AM PDT by Big_Harry ( Thank God I am an "Infidel"!)
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To: libh8er

They’ll install toilets with seats that don’t go up. That will teach us to sit.


22 posted on 09/28/2009 10:37:01 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: rwfromkansas
They only have one stall, so sounds okay to me, though not the reason.

My first experience with a unisex toilet was in France in 1965 as a 17 year old kid in the Navy. I was very embarrassed to walk in on a red haired (yes it was natural) lady using a European style commode (two foot pads and a hole in the floor). This one wasn't a one holer.

The natives had a big laugh at my expense.

23 posted on 09/28/2009 10:37:22 AM PDT by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: manic4organic
My guess is that this will quickly return to a practical if unofficial gender-specific situation the first time a guy pees on the seat.

That said, is there any way to get Islamic foot-washing facilities installed?

24 posted on 09/28/2009 10:41:23 AM PDT by americanophile (Sarcasm: satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language.)
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To: Grunthor
Now guys get to stand in line along with wimmin waiting for the chick to get out of the derned stall.

There has to be a way to tie this extra standing in line with global warming so we can kill this off fast.

The women will be happy with the guys peeing all over the seats, I imagine.

Hey, a muslim could be washing his feet in the sink while a woman was using the toilet. It's more efficient.

25 posted on 09/28/2009 10:42:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: manic4organic

they’ve come a long way from the days when that big Samoan guy would guard the door so Kathy Ireland could take a shower


26 posted on 09/28/2009 10:42:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: massgopguy
"That will teach us to sit."

So true.

27 posted on 09/28/2009 10:42:52 AM PDT by americanophile (Sarcasm: satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language.)
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To: xjcsa
I did....

You are washed and cleaned..........

: )

28 posted on 09/28/2009 10:45:06 AM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Hodar
cafeterias providing both left handed, and right handed coffee mugs

That's going too far, too fast!! I think they should start out slow with left- and right-handed pencils and paper. People need time to get used to all these changes.

29 posted on 09/28/2009 10:45:12 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: dangerdoc

Add to that, the fact that most women I know (especially when I was in college) are completely neurotic when it comes to ‘#2’ (and others knowing about it) and if they’re sharing w/men that could be bad...


30 posted on 09/28/2009 10:46:21 AM PDT by RockinRight (9/12/09 - the day the sh*t hit the fan)
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To: Big_Harry

Maybe she had IBS and had moved far beyond the point of really caring anymore!


31 posted on 09/28/2009 10:47:37 AM PDT by RockinRight (9/12/09 - the day the sh*t hit the fan)
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To: manic4organic

If these are larger single toilet family bathrooms, this is a good thing. Family bathrooms in malls and movie theaters are a lot better for us wheelchair users than the handicap stall in the other bathroom.


32 posted on 09/28/2009 10:47:40 AM PDT by DFG (1 useless man is called a disgrace, 2 are called a law firm, 3 or more are called Congress)
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To: massgopguy; americanophile
They’ll install toilets with seats that don’t go up. That will teach us to sit.

That will them to stand (or hover). Think about it.

Of course, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, but that's the way I see it.

33 posted on 09/28/2009 10:54:50 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: DFG

I prefer using the family restrooms at the airport! Shhhhhh! Don’t tell anyone else.

One of the funniest moments of my life was at a Rod Stewart concert in Chattanooga. There was a 100 woman line at the ladies restroom. I had to go REALLY bad... waiting was not an option. I asked one of my male friends to check the Mens room. He said it was clear. I hightailed it in, went potty and flushed. When I walked out of the stall - MY BOSS was using the urinal. LOL. I just went right by him and said “Good Concert!”


34 posted on 09/28/2009 10:55:20 AM PDT by nagdt ("speak the truth but leave immediately afterward")
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To: wac3rd

I don’t think the Muslims will like this!


35 posted on 09/28/2009 10:55:43 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: manic4organic

Based on observations and experience I will guess that these will be used by mostly or all women. We can use the bushes guys.


36 posted on 09/28/2009 10:56:04 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find! - I am Joe Wilson.)
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To: nagdt

I have cleared a male restroom more than once for mrs. jimfree or another lady.


37 posted on 09/28/2009 10:57:11 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find! - I am Joe Wilson.)
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To: manic4organic

I feel like throwing up.


38 posted on 09/28/2009 10:59:41 AM PDT by Palladin (ACORN is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: manic4organic
In the infamous words of Frank Barone....


39 posted on 09/28/2009 11:00:33 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: manic4organic

Hey, we had co-ed bathrooms at Radcliffe in 1972.

Yup. I was in a graduatge program there that year, and was astonished when I learned this news.

Then there’s this: The proctor told us at a dorm meeting that if you were outside smoking dope(on the front steps), and you saw a Harvard cop car go by - no problem. But if you saw a Cambridge cop car ease by, “bogart” the joint and try to look normal. Hah!


40 posted on 09/28/2009 11:12:19 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: massgopguy
They’ll install toilets with seats that don’t go up. That will teach us to sit.

I won't sit, if you get my meaning...

41 posted on 09/28/2009 11:13:02 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: manic4organic

They are not realy “unisex”. They are single-user.


42 posted on 09/28/2009 11:14:20 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I thought I was the only one who accidentally saw that movie.
43 posted on 09/28/2009 11:24:23 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: xjcsa

Thanks for clarifying. This tranny stuff is very foreign to me.

Tranny is the new gay.


44 posted on 09/28/2009 11:26:46 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: dangerdoc

Saw a gas station toilet with this sign on the door:

“We aim to please.

“You aim too, please.

;^)


45 posted on 09/28/2009 11:33:23 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: manic4organic
We had them at NATO Headquarters in some areas in the 1970s.

There were no urinals and every stall was in fact a “floor-to-ceiling” stall with a full, and lockable, door.

All business, other than washing hands and primping in front of the mirror takes place in the stall.

It was really nothing to get excited about.

The main, occasional inconvenience was a maintenance issue, arising when the supply of tissue ran out in a stall. The occupant cannot call out to an adjoining stall on either side, to kindly pass them some tissue, because there was no access of any kind between stalls. Fortunately I never had that circumstance, and its embarrassing dilemma, happen to me.

The biggest complaint came from the women, because of how often some men would use the toilet like a urinal and do so without either raising the toilet seat or wiping the seat dry when they finished.

Although such places do not have to be a big problem, it depends on the character of the individuals involved.

Because of that fact, my knowledge and experience with college kids of today makes me think that, generally, colleges would be one of the least-likely places for them to work without many problems.

46 posted on 09/28/2009 11:34:32 AM PDT by Wuli (o)
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To: RockinRight

Maybe she was just from California!


47 posted on 09/28/2009 12:11:28 PM PDT by Big_Harry ( Thank God I am an "Infidel"!)
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To: libh8er

Oh no, isn’t there a movement by the feminazis to require men to sit while urinating?


48 posted on 09/28/2009 12:16:24 PM PDT by T Minus Four
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To: manic4organic

Tail wags dog.


49 posted on 09/28/2009 1:19:31 PM PDT by DesertConservative
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To: T Minus Four

Years ago there was a satire piece about NOW pressuring the Senate to make it illegal for men to urinate in the usual way.

“Number One is all right, but don’t stand for it”, said the feminists opposing one of the last remaining differences which make men dominant over women.

The bill’s cosponsors were George McGovern and Ted Kennedy, who indicated their support by introducing the bill while sitting down.

How times have changed. Now devices are available to allow women to urinate while standing up. The appalling conditions in public restrooms must be the reason.


50 posted on 09/29/2009 12:06:04 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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