What are your thoughts on mixed gender restrooms, locker rooms, etc?

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No meaning open for trans, etc. but rather just same spaces for everyone regardless of gender.

Spongebobssocks · Accepted Answer

Unpopular opinion:

I think it is a good thing if it is done the right way.

Here in Sweden we have unisex bathrooms. Our bathrooms are fully covered from floor to celeing making no one be able to see in (not stalls). We can close and lock the door like a real bathroom at home.. only there is just a toilet. Outside everyone share zink.

I believe this way is safer because IF a transwoman/man or anyone tried to attack a woman other men are more likely to protect her than any other biologocal woman would.

chrissykerdock · Accepted Answer

you know guys are going to get erections when they see me naked and that would be uncomfortable... i think even in the cave people days they had separate restrooms then all of a sudden a gay president comes along and changes things... a lot of you answered like sheep wake up your going to get raped more than ever.

CheeseMonster · Accepted Answer

I've been saying for years that gender isn't the problem. It's the ridiculous lack of privacy. Making the stalls secure would do infinitely more to prevent assaults than putting a sign up that says "don't come in if you have these genitals." You don't need certain genitals to assault someome or make them uncomfortable. You just need to be able to get to them, like for instance through a really flimsy door that doesn't even lock half the time.

Just make good restrooms. Gender doesn't matter.

Leapfrog00 · Accepted Answer

A couple of places I worked had them. I think they're easier to locate, rather than having to search for specific restrooms to use. From my experience, they always seem cleaner too. A regular men's room is disgustingly filthy and always smells like feces and urine.

My only complaint is, it sucks when someone walks in on me from the opposite sex! lol. I gotta remember to lock the door!

ronaldo75 · Answer

As an American I would say I dont agree, however I've been to Europe many times and one of the reasons that unisex and mixed gender bathrooms work so well in Europe is that their bathrooms are built in a way that's safer and more private. Specifically European bathroom stalls are way more private than in the US. In the US you can see other people's feet in bathroom stalls, you can see them through cracks in the door. Many urinals and sometimes even toilets have no dividers or anything to block a person trying to see your genitals.

In Europe it's not like that. Most of the bathrooms I've been in when in Europe have stalls that are completely divided by stone walls or at least walls that go down to the floor with no way to peek in and see who's doing what. That's much safer and doesn't make the idea of mixed gender as uncomfortable.

Anonymous · Answer

Not okay with gender bathrooms. I'm not even okay with these people who were born a male dressing as a woman wanting to use the women's bathroom.

Before anyone comes at me. If the guy still has his male parts to me he is still a male and we women don't know if that person is just pretending to be a woman in the hope to go into the bathroom to put hidden cameras or to even attack someone and this has happened.

Anonymous · Answer

it's a disaster waiting to happen... an invasion of privacy... i don't care if you're trans, this doesn't make it okay for you to go in girls bathrooms with male parts. any random guy can dress up as a girl, stay he's trans, go in girls bathroom, and do awful things. no thank you!

Smashingdoozy · Answer

I think all bathrooms should be individual floor to ceiling stalls. With everything you need in it.

But I don't mind mixed gender bathrooms at all. If someone is going to assault someone in a bathroom a sign on the door isn't going to stop them.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I used them a few times when I was in the school student centre and upstairs because the divided gender washrooms were downstairs and I hated the all gender washrooms. They were always less clean then the same gender washrooms except on the rare occasion where a female would pee on the toilet seat.

jshm2 · Answer

Not really too fussed myself.

I couldn't give two fucks if it's the ugliest tranny or the dad next door, watching me take a shit. But it's not right for those who are more sensitive, and want privacy.

You get guys who are not able to use a toilet with another guy in the adjacent stall. Imagine the poor bastards if there knowingly is a woman in there!

Likewise, woman can be nervous around women in the toilet.

lightbulb27 · Answer

bad for women. they are getting "the short end of the stick" because of men's bad aim, all to apease a small group that is confused whom they are.

Paige90 · Answer

I'm ok with them. The restroom on my floor in college was coed so in the mornings there were many males and females taking showers and getting ready for classes. Not a big deal.

AmyHew1tt · Answer

I'm okay with it if there are also gender-specific bathrooms with them, for those people who aren't comfortable sharing a bathroom with someone of the opposite sex, and hopefully for children as well.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

I've changed in front of females and had them change in front of me in the military. No issues

Anonymous · Answer

My university has mixed washrooms in dorms and tbh it makes me so uncomfortable 💀💀 like i just walk in the washroom and there are men in towels pretty awkward. All the men are very respectful but i just feel uncomfortable, i always gasp when i see a guy too I can’t control it😂

BrookeS · Answer

Hate them. A little girl should not be in the same bathroom and a 40 something year old man

Brainsbeforebeauty · Answer

If it’s an individual restroom fine… bathrooms with stalls or urinals or locker rooms, should still be just one gender or the other in my opinion

runnerboy · Answer

can't see it happening but in theory I do not see anything wrong with it. We all know what other genders bodies look like and we all have to pee and poop. But as I said it will not happen soon

Bob92220 · Answer

I hate them. Why should little girls be exposed to men showing their dicks in the restroom?

juene · Answer

Uncomfortable. I lived in a dorm type housing with mixed bath for guys/girls. I had to move out after a week because of that.

annabananna · Answer

Restrooms I don’t really care as long as you have a private stall or private room but I don’t want to share a locker room or get undressed with someone with a penis.

najekim · Answer

A lot of nudist clubs have fully enclosed bathroom stalls with full doors so if that would get carried over to the outside world, I wouldn't have a problem.

Locker rooms would be more iffy since a lot of people are extremely prudish.

Anonymous · Answer

I suppose if they are done right. Like no urinal, just toilet rooms with a mirror and place to wash your hands. I will say a big problem will be guys peeing on the toilet seat.

Count_de_Monte_Volo · Answer

Could this be an architecture/corporate conspiracy to just save cost by having one type of universal restroom instead of 2 different kinds? 🧐

SpaceGalaxy · Answer

I am not used to them yet. I was using a stall in a men's restroom and a "woman" wearing a skirt came next to me, pulled up her skirt, and urinated just like i was (she/he had a penis)

Ptrmbrs88 · Answer

By "restroom" you mean toilet, right? A stupid idea. We're not all narcissistic show-offs who think gender is just a "construct".

jakesanterden1 · Answer

we dont have any yet, but we have female urinals in our girls bathrooms. wouldn't surprise me at some stage if they translate this into mixed gender in 5 or so years.

BarryLiverstone · Answer

They are practical. A single occupancy room where someone can lock the door. Can be useful for parents with small children.

Constantboredom · Answer

Had a guy dressed as a woman come in the woman’s bathroom one time, was deeply uncomfortable.

DummyThiccFeraligatr · Answer

Just build more single occupancy, gender neutral bathrooms. That solves most of the problems.

Unit1 · Answer

I suppose its alright for the transgender folks.

OddBeMe · Answer

Seems excessive.

Minahh · Answer

I mean it's a nice idea but in practice? I don't know imagine some creeps in women's restrooms

Katie1964 · Answer

I am fine with them but 18+.

Nikki1989 · Answer

I couldn't care less.

DermalPunch · Answer

Poses risks for women. Not equitable.

sheikalana · Answer

I'm not okay with this.

Anonymous · Answer

It’s beyond ridiculous.

OnlyMeee · Answer

I would be cool with that 😁

LovingJo · Answer

Recipe for disaster

LiamJHayden · Answer

Not a fan.

AimeeKyle · Answer

Not a fan.

CubaPirate · Answer

Not a fan tbh

Anonymous · Answer

Bad idea.

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