Should High School bathrooms be co-ed?

Question

Tiffany_Taylor_Made · Accepted Answer

No they shouldn't.

Many high school aged boys are extremely immature and rife with hormones. If boys and girls shared bathrooms at high school on a national level, more incidents of sexual harassment and possibly even sexual assault would exist. Incidents already exist of teenage boys in high school sexually harassing girls in locker rooms and public bathrooms despite bathrooms being separate, such as by filming them and/or spying on them. Similar incidents would only increase if high school bathrooms were co-ed. In addition, girls could also sexually harass boys. For example, girls could secretly film and/or spy on the boys when they are using the urinal and spread rumors around the school about their dick size. While it might sound unlikely, it is a definite possibly should all high school bathrooms be unisex because, believe me, some high school girls can be cruel. In addition, sometimes, students use bathrooms for changing clothes as well, mainly if they don't have access to locker rooms. Changing clothes when the possibility exists that the opposite sex could walk in at any moment could also be awkward for many people. Therefore, high school bathrooms definitely should not be co-ed.

PasticheGrizzly · Accepted Answer

There’s already so much sex happening in those bathrooms. You really want to multiply that number?
Plus it’s impossible. For it to truly be co Ed they’d have to be individual bathrooms. Not large ones with a bunch of toilets. A high school could never afford or fit the amount of individual bathrooms they’d need. My school wouldn’t even cough up enough money for tennis to take the bus. They made us drive ourselves.
And otherwise girls would be walking by their crush as he’s standing at the urinal.
It just makes no sense.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

There is a grocery store in Minnesota that solved this question on their own. The store has eight individual bathrooms marked as men and women bathrooms and each one has a door with a lock and it's own sink and toilet so that way no matter who or what goes in the bathroom they are in there alone. It is expensive to build but once done it avoids controversy and it also helps dads or moms who want to use the bathroom with their opposite sex kids. The future should be individual bathrooms with locks and their own sink and toilet.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

So all the girls who've answered yes (9 so far) would be fine to go into a bathroom and see guys peeing at the urinals as they themselves go into one of the stalls?

As far as I can tell, female bathrooms are generally much cleaner than male ones, so why would girls want to or have to put up with that.

Besides, why should 99% of the people have to cater for the 1% who identify thenselves as binary/non-gender? Just let transgenders choose whichever bathrooms they personally identify with, nobody will mind that !

curiousnorway · Answer

In some schools there are both female, male and unisex bathrooms. With this solution everyone would be happy. :) No need of doing it differently than this.

psychoticallyawkward · Answer

I voted no. This is a tricky topic. Co-ed bathrooms could help people who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We do need to be more tolerant and accepting of non cis-gender people. When conservatives scoff at the idea of gender neutral multi-stall bathrooms and do everything in their power to not allow that liberals tend to counter by saying conservatives are discriminating against the transgender and gender-nonconforming community. Yes, conservatives are known to be less tolerant of the LGBTQIA community. However, that alone is probably not the reason conservatives are against co-ed bathrooms. The threat to women doesn't lie in people who are transgender, but from men. However, regardless of gender identity, we are talking about high school. I have nothing against people who don't identify with their assigned sex at birth. I do believe gender is a social construct. My fear lies in the possibility of an increase in sexual assault and bullying. I need to do more research on co-ed bathrooms in high school.

Anonymous · Answer

Just wondering , but why is it such a big deal to separate them? Or put them together?

It really seems so small to me that it bugs the fuck out of me that someone has to complain “THEYRE SEPARATED. MAYBE IM A WOMAN OR IM A MAN OR IDENTIFY BLAH BKAH”

Don’t get me wrong, I support those people to identify themselves what they feel they are... but to make. A big deal out of this WHEN WE HAVE MUCH BIGGER ISSUES TO FOCUS ON LIKE ADVANCMENT IN TECHNOLOGY OR HELPING ADVANCE OUR EDUCATION SYSYTEM OR MAYBE OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM... Why the fuck... we are complaining on this shit (pun unintended).

It’s not discrimination. I’ve been in the coed bathrooms or gender neutral bathrooms and I hate seeing a urinal next to the stall 🙄 to see a man peeing before I get into the bathroom stall is uncomforting.

I don’t think it’s discrimination, I believe it had a purpose to separate it. I mean cmon, when do people go “YEAH, you stay in that bathroom you women you! *shakes fist*” 😂it’s ridiculous.

Do you realize we kinda get made fun of or looked down on by some foreigners when they see the gender bathroom notion. It’s just ridiculous.

That’s just my opinion though. Not trying to make the whole world see it from my point

-Wildfire-_ · Answer

NONONONONO NOOOOOO at least not at my school. this a terrifying thought on my perspective. This is a very bad idea for several reasons. You must remember that high school students can still be VERY VERY immature. (you would not believe how crazy high school kids can be. trust me.) im not saying most students, but I feel like some students would just use the washrooms to vape with each other, or use It as a private place to make out. High school students are to young to understand the purpose of co-ed washrooms.

ShadowofRegret · Answer

No, I would not care for having to dodge women's hygiene products and such when entering.

Not to mention men and women would most likely sexually harass and even possibly rape each other.

And for all the women saying that boys are filthy, I actually remember a study that showed that women's restrooms are actually more filthy than the men's restrooms by reason of feminine hygiene, as well as childern.

Not to mention I have heard of women doing many of the same things men are often accused of in there.

Anonymous · Answer

I know in my heart of hearts there are plenty of decent guys who would never do this but in high school, the boys room had feces spread all over it's walls by a student and the same exact thing happened in college 2x---this I knew because I was friends with a few RA's. Even on my all girls floor in college, guys from other dorms who would occasionally sneak in to use the bathroom rather then go a floor up or down would always compliment us on how nice our bathroom was and how good it smelled and how clean it was----for this reason alone---I would have had no desire back then or in college or now to have a co-ed bathroom. You would have to have stalls which means, they would be shared stalls, which means pee would start appearing on the seats and floor, and that's just the start of it...no thanks.

ffld_01 · Answer

Highschool kids are too immature for something like that.

Anonymous · Answer

No I really wouldn’t to be in the same bathroom as any guy. I like how it is now, they’re separate. What’s the point of making them co-ed anyway?

zoe2187 · Answer

No. That’s a horrible idea. Letting horny teenagers in the bathroom is just stupid.

SunsetsAndOldies · Answer

Nope, it’d be a bad idea. I know my peers and they’d be wayy to immature for this ( most likely other schools as well )

leiasnoop · Answer

I voted no, but not for a lot of the reasons people are giving... bullying? Lol, like that's a gender centric issue...

The problems mentioned have nothing to do with bathrooms, and keeping them binary or making them co-ed isn't going to solve any of those problems.

pageturner · Answer

Definitely not! The guys at my school, mostly juniors, spread shit on the walls and break the toilets.

AriesMan · Answer

Does the high potential for rape come to anyone's minds, especially in inner city schools? I won't apologize when I say forget about "transgender" feelings of being denied their bathroom of choice! In a world where people are not saints and rape does happen, I would prefer we protect women by separating the sexes. A woman is NO WOMAN if born a male and either IT has a penis or lacks the organic equipment to menstruate and have children!

Kaneki05 · Answer

Nope and people who are different gender should still go to the toilet that there sex is.
Or just use the disable toilets instead.

Tbh i always used the disable one just cause it's way better plus i could smoke in there and stuff. It was just ten times better so no one is gonna judge you if you do.

Xx420xxDANKOxx420xX · Answer

The part of my school where I go to is heavily man-dominated. So every now and then when there's no-one around, I got to take my shit in the girls room because it's cleaner, and I have till this day never met someone in the girls bathroom while I've been doing so.

manyQandAs · Answer

Guys would be trying to flash girls and possibly worse, and girls wouldn't have the privacy to take care of feminine stuff. That would be awful. They're could be a single stall bathroom for anyone added though

Cask23 · Answer

My college dorm had a single co-ed bathroom in the hall center and gender specific bathrooms at the end. I'll tell you exactly what happened.

Not a single female would actually use the co-ed bathroom. So the men took it over. The men ended up with two bathrooms on the floor and the women crowded into one.

This will happen exactly the same way in high school.

lforman007 · Answer

There should be a co-ed option along with only female and only male. All bathrooms should not be co-ed though. It's that 1% of trans people making the 99% uncomfortable.

foodtv · Answer

Co-ed, no. There's too many idiots out there for that. Go where you identify.

UglyestGuyEver · Answer

Yes, sex is good... a lot of people like sex... If both genders same toilets there will be many people perving on each other... Resulting in willing participate in sexual acts... But it wouldn't be very fortunate for the individual who gets perved on by someone they don't find attractive and would not like to participate in sex with... It will be annoying for those people.. or people who don't like sex... But they will have to deal with it like big girls and boys

MatinBrumeux · Answer

No! There is no good reason for it and a million reason not to.

Felinegirl · Answer

I think the gender indications should be optional. Like, the one with and the one without urinals, or the one designed for men and the one designed for women. Go to whichever you feel more comfortable at.

Wharvey98 · Answer

Highscool bathrooms are bad enough as is. By making them co-Ed you put a huge amount of temptation to do stupid things in front of already horny and stupid teenagers. Also just no.

pattonias · Answer

There would be an impressive amount of pregnant teens if this happened.

janna_jcb · Answer

I think there should be at least one of those bathrooms in every school, but there should also be segregated bathrooms

Daniel3035 · Answer

More like 3 types both male and female.
Honestly I don’t mind if we have unisex bathrooms i’d actually prefer it since girls are so much cleaner and nicer smell wise. But I can also understand since a lot of guys 😷 treat bathrooms disgustingly girls wouldn’t want that.
But for me it’s 3 types unisex im pretty ok with.

inmensus · Answer

I picked no because kids around that age are too immature. Some can be cruel too and for some people the bathroom is their "hiding spot". But I don't see a problem if it's public restrooms. I've been to many and everything was normal. People are just overly paranoid and afraid of change.

crazy8000 · Answer

Absolutely.
Only people with attitude problems create problems for everyone.

Have been to those bathrooms and they are much nicer then the segrigated by sex one's, most of the times they doesn't have urinal, those that had did have single ones like you have the toilet's.
No, people doesn't have sex on toilets in that extent as some think, but people tend to do the opposite when something isn't allowed because of the thrill of it and to revolt just like all other immature morons.

Paige90 · Answer

I am totally ok with co-ed bathrooms in most places. My dorm in college had them and at first, I was very concerned about it but after doing it for two years it felt normal.

The_Dean · Answer

If you want your children to fuck in the bathroom stall, sure! If you don't want that, nah.

JulieXO · Answer

Where I’m from there’s still only two genders. I think there should always be a men’s and women’s bathroom. A coed bathroom ain’t gonna hurt nobody but it shouldn’t be the only option.

morrowlow · Answer

i read many of the comments and they were mostly written by girls basically saying how disgusting boys are. now let me give you girls another reason to hate co-ed bathrooms besides the filthy boys. imagine how your crush would feel about you if he walks in the bathroom and hear your roaring fart

Blueeyes81 · Answer

I have a hard enough time hearing a guy blow ass. Now imagine you walk into the bathroom and here a nasty shit, then out comes your crush from the stall. Talk about romantic.

MascGirls · Answer

No. Multi-stalled bathrooms should never be gender neutral.

kawaiiguineapig · Answer

They shouldn't be co-ed. But piss in whatever gender's bathroom you identify as.

loveshorro · Answer

My school has one but no one uses it and one of my friends used to go to a school where everyone only used the coed bathroom for hooking up and bjs so while I think they are fine I do not think they work

hellacray · Answer

Nah keep them separate.  Women's restrooms are the only ones I've seen that ever needed to form a line.  I don't want that kind of bs happening when I need to take a piss.

ThatInsaneChick · Answer

Definitely not. I have nothing against the LGBT community, but that would make me really uncomfortable.

Anonymous · Answer

No, Transgender people have broken Insulas in their brain and are mentally ill. They need help.

Dinklex3 · Answer

I accidentally meant to say no. Lol But I just remember when I was in highschool.  If it was coed kids would be having sex in the stalls (I'm talking about my school)

Travis_Skyles · Answer

I don't know about other schools but my school has an issue with teens having sex in the non co-ed bathrooms. So co-ed bathrooms would only make it worse.

gym4ever · Answer

lol, there would be probably banging in bathrooms everyday

Littlewife · Answer

They may as well if they are letting trans kids or kids who claim other genders use whatever bathroom they want.

Darklydarkened · Answer

Well, a lot of places have joint bathrooms in Ukraine.  Personally, I'd be against it, women tend to occupy bathrooms too much and I don't want to start waiting in line.

OldSchool_Metalhead · Answer

Nooo. Teenagers are raging with hormones im sure they would find a way to make some other use for such a bathroom..

Liam_Hayden · Answer

What could possibly go wrong by exposing hormone-raging teens to naked people of the opposite gender?

OtakuNeko666 · Answer

I guess I'm ok with it as long as there are stalls so the genders don't peek each other?

TripleAce · Answer

I would of preferred separated ones lol... I dont think id be able to go with the hot babe in there

unKN1GHTed · Answer

That's sexist. I don't identify as a human, I identify as a tentacle monster and refuse to shit in human restrooms.

000_000 · Answer

No. But I think there’s some California law that requires schools to have at least one family restroom. Or the kind that only has one toilet in it

ElizabethE_2004 · Answer

Only if it’s a single br being watched, I personally wouldn’t really care but everyone knows, Boys+Girls=Sex

Jessica04 · Answer

We have a “uni-sex” bathroom 🚽 but also separate gender bathrooms

Benedek38 · Answer

Yes, because segregated bathrooms are sexual discrimination.

Amanda269 · Answer

It is best to have a row of single uni sex bathrooms. No giant gap, thin stalls

xxcandyxxcanes · Answer

I think we should just have single bathrooms like in your home. This is getting ridiculous.

Xoxoroxy · Answer

Voted no. I just feel like a lot of unnecessary stuff can happen.

HungLikeAHorsefly · Answer

Who gives a shit? Do it or don't do it and STFU about it.

Ellie-V · Answer

I don’t have much of an opinion either way but I’m not mad at the idea 🤷🏾‍♀️

TheLorde · Answer

I can't stand the boys toilets in my school and Im a guy. I walked in and there's three guys shitting into the same urinal.

Gavyn · Answer

Nope. Makes it too easy to make out and have sex. Plus it has a total disregard for privacy and gender differences.

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