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One type of product I 100% recommend, in whatever brand suits you, is pants with front-to-back zippers. That is correct: pants or leggings that unzip from the top of the fly all the way to the back waistband.

These were obviously made with squatting in mind, but they are a GAME CHANGER for STP use as well. My weird knee makes squatting to pee messy and painful, so I haven’t tested that aspect, but I can’t imagine a person with working legs having a problem. And they are by far the easiest pair of pants or leggings to use an STP while wearing, hands down, and I include men’s pants in that. The gold standard is still a tiny dress, but no one is hiking in a tiny dress.

Blows my mind that these are not more popular. Check out Gnara or Ziphers. Ziphers also has some availability on Amazon.

Related: Kula Cloth! Most STPs are designed so that you don’t need to wipe, but if you want extra protection or you still like squatting, try these out. These I have not tested, but they have a waffle design called “Twatwaffle” so that is highly excellent.

 I do not receive any money from the sale of these products. Honestly, I didn’t even get free samples.

Guides

pStyle’s blog (which is pretty great) has a very popular article about safe, legal public urination. Of course it assumes you’re using a pStyle, but most STPs would work.

Here’s an Autostraddle article by Gabe Dunn called “A Trans Guy’s Guide to the Men’s Bathroom.” It posits that men’s bathrooms are gross and socially difficult to navigate (hashtag not all men’s bathrooms) and is basically a guide for men who have transitioned. It’s not explicitly about STPs, although they do get a mention. (He says they get pee on his hands. What are you doing, Gabe?)

 Articles

This article about bathroom practices in the geosciences highlights the fact that problems arise when we don’t talk about bodily functions. It might seem a little niche, but lack of dialogue about bathroom opportunities plagues a number of different professions in ways that can be exclusionary to women, trans people, and disabled people.

This very introductory video essay on gender theory by Judith Butler is a great place to start if you feel like maybe there’s more to gender than the idea of biological sex.