Watch: Opera house opens all-gender toilets
mainMichael Petrelis, the veteran campaigner, has news that the home of San Francisco Opera will instal new gender-neutral water closets news month.
He publishes a note from Elizabeth Murray, managing director of the San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center buildings and a video extract of the board meeting:
Thank you for your inquiry. The War Memorial will be implementing the Board of Supervisors’ ordinance regarding all-gender toilet facilities at the Performing Arts Center.
In accordance with the ordinance we will be re-designating single-user toilet facilities as all-gender facilities by September 23, 2016.
We will then be re-designating certain multiple-user toilet facilities as all-gender facilities by November 23, 2016. We are currently in the planning stage so I cannot yet advise you on specific restroom re-designations.
Upon completion of this process I will be happy to let you know our plans.
The photograph aptly depicts the warring opinions surrounding gender-sensitive subjects.
In most private homes in the West, however, gender-neutral facilities have been introduced quietly and unprovocatively, out of sight of gender-specific minorities. (I begin to realize that in my own house, the subject has been unjustly neglected.)
I’d do the eyeroll at this point but opera houses and concert halls can always use more toilets so the net effect is a plus.
Does this mean women attending the Met won’t have to queue out the door any longer while watching men come and go freely to their restrooms?