I’d never even considered cleaning as a possible reason for this, so thanks for that 
I was wondering whether there was a US culture of expecting / being comfortable with less privacy. Every TV depiction of a male or female US locker room shows them getting down to nude and having showers. In NZ no school changing room ever had showers. You changed out of your physical education clothes back into your school uniform with no showering. I wondered if maybe Americans were used to being naked around each other more, like many European cultures are, and therefore didn’t mind if people could see them on the toilet. This is what happens when you’re raised on a another countries televisions shows and movies. You can end up with ridiculous ideas about what another country’s culture/s is/are like.
Oh, honey, I see that at my workplace every single day. Plus a raging cockroach problem. …And I work in a standard govt office building.
But since it’s Texas, that’s okay!!
Crossing the streams is bad!
Well when you are worried about getting COOTIES!!, then you obsess of stupid stuff.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Think of the children!!
I was in a rest area in Nebraska. I stopped to use the men’s room and the sink wasn’t running properly so there was no water coming out. I went into the hallway and looked for the handicapped/family/uni-sex bathroom to wash my hands. Someone had hastily scrawled a women’s sign and taped it to the door.
Problem Solved
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Install a special lock on the bathroom door with a bio-sensor.
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Drop your pants and slam your parts onto / into the sensor.
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If the sensor likes what it sees, the door is unlocked.
Easy as pi.
This is an elaborate set up. When they force trans women to use the men’s room, they can charge them with soliciting.
Not one person convicted of sexual assault is excluded from rest rooms. Denny Hastert can still ogle boys to his hearts delight. None of the 300,000 cisgender women who have abused kids in the US is refused using a public rest room.
Both of these groups are larger by several times than the entire population of trans woman in the country. Trans women’s pattern of violent criminality doesn’t differ from cisgender women. Even so - if every single trans women was a predator - we would still be a lower risk than cisgender people.
But - I agree - more violence directed towards trans women is coming. So we need to start a nonprofit to buy handguns for trans women & help them get concealed carry permits.
And pass laws outlawing the use of public rest rooms by politicians.
This is too cynical not to be true.
It seems unnecessarily cruel to deny them any sex life. And anyway, they’ll just go in closets and hallways, and the Senate will smell like Versailles in the old days. Why not just rename the existing washrooms as “Unisex” and “Politicians”?
Experience is a very harsh teacher. And I’ve been taught by nuns.
I think this is a states rights issue - every state needs to pass its own laws on housebreaking politicians. As Ted Cruz wants to require of trans women - restrict them to using their home rest room.
West African. Ghana, perhaps.
Chances are it will be a trans woman 
It is also for safety. A person locked in a stall and having problems can be removed quickly. Also having some visibility will help if someone passes out. In places like hospitals, drug treatment centers and wards for the mentally handicapped the stalls are set up for easier outside access. Those closed stalls present a problem, if someone passes out as they could sit there for hours. Another issue is if they are private stalls, you would have more private illicit acts. Think airline bathrooms. I am no prude, but if I need to use a stall, I don’t mind waiting for others, but if they are injecting drugs or having a mini tryst, get a room!
I never got this complete privacy worry.
But… what about no. 2?
Oh, that’s easy. Standing around with your wiener out and letting a stream of urine fly is a sign of strength. It’s how male mammals mark their territory. But exposing your butthole and sitting down to poo? That’s when you’re at your most vulnerable. I’ve never seen a sports stadium with communal pooping troughs.
“This fellow has volunteered”
Oh Texas you are the funny bone[r] of the lower 48!
(I have a hard time taking any serious issue seriously, so always take my comments with a unimogs load of salt)
The worst thing people miss out on when using women’s restrooms is that the men’s version has literal poetry carved into the very living walls of the establishment. The verisimilitude and ennui these snippets of genius you encounter can be life changing for the sensitive artist.
You get a like just for having had to do that for a day job.
I just find it interesting… humans can build and send a probe to Mars, but they won’t design and implement a female version of the standing urinal? You could cram a few more bodies into the restroom that way, maybe reduce some of those long waits to get in.
Every baby should be offered a box of popcorn upon birth, because let me tell ya… it’s a long, strange show here.
