Should sex-segregated swimming hours be established in public pools?

[LeftyMom]

34. I don't see why they couldn't rent the pool when it's normally closed.

When I was in school we used to be able to do that for parties, I can't imagine why a community group couldn't do the same thing. So if the pool opens at 10 am, if they wanted to pay for the staffing and electricity and whatever to open the pool up an hour and a half earlier for the super modest gender segregated swim session, I don't see why that would be an issue.


OTOH, I wouldn't approve of excluding the taxpaying public from a public space during it's normal operating hours based on gender. So if the pool normally closes at 8 pm, but it starts closing to the general public at 6:30 in order to hold a session for religiously motivated modest swimsuit people, that's really not fair.

FWIW, I've looked on the website of one of the modest swimsuit companies for Muslim women in the UK, and their suits are pretty darned cute and snug enough I don't see how it would impede recreational swimming. I've halfway considered ordering one, just because the sun and I are not friends (but I wound up getting a little boys' suit from Target that covered the same amount of space instead.) The stuff marketed to American fundie Christians, OTOH, is hideous and baggy and looks like an accidental drowning waiting to happen.