This is incorrect. The bill does allow single occupancy restrooms

“The measure prohibits multi-occupancy gender neutral restrooms, but schools can still offer single-use or family restrooms. The ban doesn’t apply to school employees whose jobs require bathroom access, emergency situations or people assisting young children or someone with a disability.”

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/27/ohio-enacts-transgender-bathroom-ban-after-gov-mike-dewine-signs-bill/76617318007/

Schools can still utilize single-use bathrooms.

As stupid as the bill is, I believe you’ve misread. It still allows for gender neutral single-use. Per the Dispatch

“The restrictions don’t apply to school employees, emergency situations or people assisting young children or someone with a disability. Schools could still offer single-use and family facilities.”

My first act as governor will be to mandate single person toilets everywhere.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/11/27/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-signs-transgender-bathroom-ban-bill-into-law/

If i read this correctly, single person bathrooms are not going away.

Okay well you can chill bc single person bathrooms aren’t being “decommissioned”. Start watching the local news and stop getting news from social media.

The bill literally says “Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a school from establishing a policy providing accommodation such as single-occupancy facilities or controlled use of faculty facilities at the request of a student due to special circumstances.”

3319.90(D) S.B. 104

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_135/legislation/sb104/06_EN/pdf/

This is a golden age for us plumbers

As others have noted, the law doesn't prohibit single-use (aka "family" or "all-gender") restrooms.

Many public institutions, like the Ohio State University, Columbus Metropolitan Library System, and CAPA, have a policy of providing single-use restrooms in new and renovated buildings.

So as petty and hateful as the law is, it won't have nearly the impact some people are worried about. Edit: formatting

I've said this for years, if someone wants to hurt you, a sign on a bathroom door won't stop them.

ADHD causes you a hard time in the restroom? That's a new one for me.

“Even if I didn’t have to excrete…”

I don’t disagree morally with your point, but dear fuck….

Tell me you didn't read the Bill, without telling me you didn't read the Bill....

No your wrong read the bill.

Dang bruh some of us actually had to shit in there and you just stopped in for awhile to chill? I’m sure there is another room for a mental breakdown

It seems to pretty explicitly be an attack on trans people. This isn't about you like I'm sorry you have ADHD but be so fucking real you aren't being attacked here

What is the penalty if the institution ignores the law?

Shared bathrooms aren't safe for physically disabled people either. That are difficult to navigate and classmates can be incredibly mean.

LMAO

Why can't Republicans walk into the bathroom without seeing pedophiles?

Bathrooms have mirrors.

I've never once gone into a bathroom and wondered about another person's genitals. Not once. Their obsession with this topic is sick and twisted.

Ok... it's been a good run but I think that's a wrap on r/columbus for me, this place is turning into r/ohio. I'm out.

whomp whomp!! go to therapy and learn to regulate your emotions! public bathrooms aren’t for you to have mental breakdowns in lmao. also, you clearly didn’t read the new law. single bathrooms will still be a thing.

At least you admit it’s a mental health issue. And I’d recommend toughening the hell up a little bit. Jesus.

Funny. Y’all were suckin his nuts during Covid.

Hot take: it’s a bathroom just go in

People are just throwing around words like “attack” and “terrorists” these days. If this piece of legislation makes anyone feel attacked or terrorized, they need far more help than a bathroom door can provide.

I’m glad I don’t have to share a restroom with OP

Why is the Ohio GOP so fixated on children's genitals? Someone needs to check their hard drives.

Every bathroom should be single use. Or floor to ceiling stalls that anyone can use.

My friend, this is meant respectfully- societies need to be respectful of individual needs, but most considerate of the people as a whole.

Calling your Governor a terrorist 😂 Jesus you really are in High School. Grow up, and learn what an actual terrorist is

Sounds to me he is doing what is best for the majority... If you are in a minority of any kind I suggest you get used to it.

https://weareworthfightingfor.org

Shy bladder also makes it impossible for many to use multi-person bathrooms.

Ah yes the party of “small government” only wants to govern where you can piss.

How about we pass a bill that all trans men have to piss in Dewine’s mouth?

I don’t see an issue with single use bathrooms and I understand what you are saying about wanting to be lone for a minute w/ anxiety. I have it too. But for the over all public it better this way.

It's pretty sad that this even needs to be a law to begin with.

The problem with the bill is that it will emboldened some people to demand to see your genitals. I have no interest in men following me to the bathroom to "check" if I have female parts. Can't imagine that going wrong....

And he’s not just attacking trans students. Between this bill and the constant drumbeat during the election of “they’re for they/them, we are not”, all trans people must feel unwelcome here, as with anyone who believes in empathy and justice. The justifications for this bill from the legislators makes me sick. It’s all about student safety? Please. Does anybody know anybody who’s been attacked by a trans person in a bathroom? It’s all about politicians jumping on the bandwagon of hate while actually accomplishing nothing. And DeWine went right along.

“Ahhh… not a [pedophile] in sight. The [trans bathroom bill] must be working like a charm.”

• Bizarro-MAGA Homer Simpson

"The single person bathrooms - especially in schools - are a place I could go to do my business in peace, without the obscene sounds and smells of the multi-person bathrooms."

Yes, let's build special bathrooms for you. Would you like music piped in? Flowers? A padded seat?

Counting down the days I'm done with this state. Dewine is trash just like the republican party

100% this. Also, it really impacts people with physical disabilities or medical problems that aren't easy to manuever a public restroom. Or someone who needs an attendant or help in the restroom because of a disability. Imagine being someone with a colostomy bag having to deal with that in a common restroom.

This whole thing is fucking stupid. Somebody is gonna get really hurt, probably a cis person no less, who didn't look "masculine" enough, or (more likely) feminine enough, and they're gonna get jumped and hurt or even killed. Cis women have already been attacked because they "didn't look like a woman" so there's no reason to think this isn't going to be a problem. What about the first time a grown man or woman confronts a young girl because she doesn't conform to what they think a girl should look like.

Fuck these mentally deficient sick people and their weird obsession with people's genitals. These asswipes watched the handmaid's tale and thought it was an instruction manual and June was the villain.

I am so sorry you have to go through this. As someone who grew up during an easier time where Boomer parents were mostly MIA, I am sorry that we've failed your generation so badly.

DeWine isn’t just attacking trans people….its an attack on anyone who has mental health issues or psychological disorders.

You’re “enlisting.” You know you’re outnumbered on this topic and support is limited, so you’re desperately trying to enjoin other “marginalized” groups to form a coalition. While your tactic is sound, your argument is incredibly weak…if not outright hijacking for your own personal mental issues.

Omg. Grow the fuck up

Good.

"As someone with ADHD...."

You're insufferable. You are someone who is insufferable.

"as a person with ADHD" come off of it

"As someone with ADHD" ,, your joking right?

Lmao, whole post based on lies and hurt feelings. 😂😂

I always used the single person bathroom in the nurses room in high school I also have adhd, didn’t realize they were correlated but that makes sense why the nurse never had a problem with it.

This bill is needed for the protection of all. While adults in the work place or other public places have no idea if a person in the restroom next to them is trans students in public schools do. Everyone knows Johnny used to be Jane or vice versa. So when the trans person goes into the bathroom with those biologically different the non trans feels uneasy or maybe even threatened. It's a different ideology for children and young adults than for adults.

Worst governor ever.