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The American Restroom Association defines 'potty parity' as "advocacy efforts and actual legislation that addresses the longer lines for women often seen at public restrooms." This is also the definition used in "The potty parity problem: Towards gender equality at restrooms in business facilities" (doi: 10.1016/j.seps.2018.11.003). The Atlantic defines 'potty parity' as "the goal of giving men and women equal access to public toilets." The paper by Kogan does not once advocate against equal access to public toilets. It advocates for desegregated toilets that everyone would have equal access to, regardless of gender. Even within the first four pages, Kogan highlights that a major problem with gender-segregated facilities is that they create longer lines for women and criminalize women using the bathroom with a shorter line ("However, this architectural practice [("separating public restrooms by sex")] causes both physical challenges and emotional harms to significant groups of people: ... women at public events inevitably waiting in long restroom lines during intermission, well after the men's restroom has cleared."). The paper critiques segregation, not parity. While this may seem like original research, the article doesn't mention potty parity at all so there is no way to use it to determine whether it's critiquing potty parity and it's not known well enough to have other articles written about its stance on potty parity.
Considering that the second line of this article is "[s]pearheaded by women workers, potty parity has long been a pillar of both the feminist movement and the labor movement," the article portrays potty parity as a feminist policy. If the only article labelled as criticism is one that supports the equality of transgender people, the most obvious implications lend themselves easily to TERFism. Needlessly establishing and justifying this mindset shows blatant disregard for the ethical responsibilities Wikipedia has as the most read online encyclopedia and one of the ten most visited websites. Thousands of people have visited this article since the edit adding this misclassification and they have almost certainly come away from it with the idea that trans rights are and desegregated bathrooms are antithetical to women's equality without any just basis for such a claim. AethyrX (talk) 18:26, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's not a highly-watched article by editors, though. I'll keep an eye on it... we shouldn't have a "criticism" section here regardless. Reconrabbit19:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
