After women's bathrooms in Santa Monica became a favorite hangout for male drug dealers, the city passed an ordinance prohibiting both men and women from using the opposite sex's facilities unless a line of three or more people kept them from using their own. But Gloria Allred, a lawyer and activist, objected that this violates women's right to urinate in any facility at any time, calling it "the first step down a long, dark road of restricting women's rights."

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