The Walnut Creek City Council on Tuesday night repealed part of a city ordinance restricting use of single-use toilets in city parks and open spaces to one gender.
The city’s municipal code previously prohibited people from using or entering a toilet facility specifically designated for use by members of the opposite sex in city parks and open spaces.
“This only impacts single stall bathrooms, which are already non-gender use,” said Councilmember Kevin Wilk. “This does not change multi-use restrooms.”
The move was made to align the city with state law.
A staff report for Tuesday’s meeting said “The Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibits arbitrary discrimination in California business establishments on the basis of specified classifications. The act mandates that all persons, no matter their race, sex, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language or immigration status, are ‘entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.'”
The law specifically includes a person’s “gender identity” and “gender-expression” in its definition of “sex” for purposes of the act’s anti-discrimination protections.
The report also said Assembly Bill 1732, passed in 2016, added the requirement that single-occupancy restrooms in California businesses, government buildings, and places of public accommodation be universally accessible.
The law requires all single-user toilet facilities in any business establishment, place of public accommodation or state or local government agency to be identified as all-gender toilets and designated only for single-use or for family or assisted use.
The Walnut Creek Municipal Code previously prohibited any person, other than a child accompanied by a parent or guardian, from using or entering any toilet facility specifically designated for use by members of the opposite sex.
I guess no harm no foul on that one. I thought most single use bathrooms were like that anyway. Everyone always trying to make things complicated. How many hours did they spend on that?
Oh, you’ve got that right. Just leave S – – t alone people! What is the problem???
I have NO problem with anyone wanting to identify by anything other than what they were born with and YOU all claim you “just want to be treated normal”. Well, just ACT normal, do you thing and quit trying to change the world.
People might respect you more if you just ” Live Life”, be Happy”.
Or are all of you SO “insecure” with what you choose as your identity that you have to try to change the majority and the people who IDENDIFY with what they were born with??
gender expression…. seriously? Wear a dress or wig and you are identified as a woman?
The bathroom door should read mentally challenged and be locked at all times.
One would think they’d have more urgent issues to deal with.
They do – but choose not to deal with those as they are “too difficult” or politically charged – just stick to the easy stuff
Everything was fine and legal until the woke crowd came along and twisted things. I’m not interested in using a bathroom after a man with poor aim went first.
Their goal is to have us all sitting down.
From what I have been told women’s restrooms are worse than men’s.
You’ve been told wrong.
Rumor has it that most adult women share a crapper with a man ….. in their own house!
Why is this an issue at all. Poop in any toilet you want
no matter your gender. Try not to make a mess of it.
Really.
This is all very dumb.
So now us guys, who usually urinate with alacrity, get to wait while the ladies hog all the stalls lol.
Guess life is pretty good when we are legislating on toilets.
We are not talking stalls here. Women will not be in a mens restrooms with more than one place to go potty in it. And vice versa.
Wrong word choice on my part. What I mean is that, where there used to be two single toilet bathrooms, one men and one women, now there will be two unisex bathrooms. Women spend more time while going to the bathroom, hence the longer lines for the ladies room. Now men get to wait in the same line.
Ricardoh- but men DO use the women’s multi-stalled bathrooms ALL OF THE TIME. They think they are entitled to because they have a mental health disorder.
Nah; the world is our urinal. Just think outside the box a bit!
Garfunkel and Oates!
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t believe a woman exiting a “single-serve” restroom should have to come face to face with a male guest waiting just outside the door.