Madsen: Washington toilet rules lack sense

Women who grew up attending events in the old Spokane Coliseum still talk about the restrooms. The common complaint of not enough stalls in the ladies room was aggravated by the toilets themselves; in a typical restroom with a dozen stalls, all but two of them contained female urinals instead of toilets with a seat. They were American Standard SaniStands. When the Coliseum was designed, the SaniStand was the cutting-edge solution to speeding up lines in the ladies room. It was a good example of a bad decision driven by social engineering theory. Women would endure horrendously long lines to use the two stalls with ordinary toilets, avoiding the female urinal stalls unless desperate. When theory collides with common sense, common sense wins/ Sue Lani Madsen , SR guest columnist. More here .

Question: What do you make of the new Washington Human Rights Commission rule re: public restrooms?