That’s similar to the university residence I spent half a year in. Although signs had been made alternating sexes every floor, us students were instructed to treat them as unisex. Somehow, some of the women didn’t pay attention during orientation, because I got some dirty looks when responding to my [at the time] undiagnosed Crohn’s Disease.

As for this article, I hope anyone reading this can excuse the obvious position of privilege this comes from but it really just seems like the Saskatchewan legislative building didn’t have men’s and women’s rooms per se (barring maybe the obviously discouraging and misleading signs on the doors, the much smalller room(s) being labeled ‘women’s’). All it had were poorly labeled unisex washrooms where no one got thr memo, and what this article is talking about is renovsting and gendering them. Anyone who excluded all others by treating the much larger room(s) as men’s room(s) are no better than those who frowned upon my washroom usage during my university days. The main difference is the patriarchy is a lot stronger than a few dirty looks.