Why are people opposed to gender neutral bathrooms?

Question

There are many workplaces that have gender neutral bathrooms and I would venture most of us don't divide the bathrooms in our homes according to gender.

We are willing to share a bathroom with members of the opposite s*x within a home and not in public?

Why are we willing to share a bathroom with members of the opposite s*x in certain public circumstances like at a party, but not in others, like in school?

What about people who don't fit into gendered categories?

Why do people feel that their voices don't matter or don't deserve to be heard?

Please share your views.

Answer 1

God helps us all. We really do live in a nihilistic society these days.  

Answer 2

For me, at work, I don't care one way or the other.  But public restrooms (like at a mall) should be kept separate.  Would you want your 10 year old daughter going into a restroom with adult men?  Or high school?  Think back to when you were in high school?  Would you have wanted to go to the restroom with teen-aged guys?  (or vice versa?  I hated to go the bathroom with other girls and I am a girl!!)  

Answer 3

If the bathroom is lockable, and one toilet, there is no need for it to be labeled by gender.  But if the door stays open, it should be separated.  People change clothes in the bathroom, often without using up a stall.

Answer 4

Because bathroom can mean both single occupancy or multiple occupancy

Most people who oppose gender neutral bathrooms oppose gender neutral multi occupancy bathrooms,

A few reasons would be because they would have to either reduce the number of urinals in the mens room by putting them in stalls, or get rid of urinals and replace them with toilets, or expose men to women

Either way its not a good seen for the men involved because they would reduce bathroom efficiency

Answer 5

Its a privacy and physical space thing for me...personal safety issues, cleanliness and hygiene.  We do share with men we know etc... but that's not without fraught times, peeing on the seat, leaving it up  etc.

And who says we are all willing too...I shared unisex toilets and bathrooms at college, and there was no equality fest there..the men were selfish pigs and trying to have a shower or bath without some 'wag' attempting to peer in was a nightmare.

I for one don't want to have to share with a load of blokes standing at a urinal, while we still have to queue for 3 stalls! After all who do you think actually designs your average public toilet..not women as they would be so many more of them,and far more spacious.

As for the idea for transgender toilets, gender reassignment means you are swapping right? So swap and go the loo of choice!  

Answer 6

well personally some guys dont hold their wee wees when they p**s and they get their juices all over the floor. I kinda dont want my pant legs getting wet. and dude, it's just a bathroom, who cares? I've gone tino the guy's bathroom to pee before because women take such a LONG time. and that brings me to another point, if it's neutral then the guys are gonna have to suffer.

Answer 7

Wanna bet?  When we bought this house I was adamant that it had to have at least 3.5 bathrooms.  When we entertain, the men are directed to the powder room on the main floor, which has plenty of liquid soap and paper towels.  The women are directed upstairs to the guest bath, which is tricked out with fresh flowers, potpourri or candles, pretty guest towels, hand cream, extra tampons, hairspray, etc.  Of course anyone can use whichever bathroom they want, but you'd be surprised how many women appreciate the special treatment.  No male party guest has ever complained . . . or used the upstairs bathroom because he wanted to be obnoxious and prove something.

Sorry, will not discuss further.  It is what it is.

Unless it's absolutely necessary, I won't use a gender-neutral bathroom if I can help it unless it's in someone else's house.  

I am not responsible for people who don't fit into either category.  They'll have to get by on their own.

Answer 8

Listen I have had my share of cleaning jobs ok? I worked retail and when I have been given the task to clean the restrooms, I hated cleaning the girls rest rooms! Guys are durty but girls suprizingly, are FREAKING PIGS!!!

Yeah the worst thing I saw in the guys bathrooms is urine all on the floor and crapped on underpants but GIRLS are filthy! Girls leave their tampons and dirty girl stuff all in the sinks! It is like you do it becasue you hate each other so much!!!

I dont want to share with you stinky a$$ girls!!!  

Answer 9

I think the divide has lasted simply because of function and layout... women's bathrooms have additional trash containers for personal hygiene reasons and men's bathrooms have urinals for convenience.

This seems quite trivial when there are women being forced into marriage and millions being raped through out the world...

Answer 10

I don't think you want men seeing you in that intimate of a setting, and I know I don't want women seeing me there.

Private bathrooms are different.  There's (usually) only one person going at a time there, unlike most public bathrooms.  I've never worked at a place that didn't have separate bathrooms so I can't comment on that issue.

As for people who have body parts of both sexes, I honestly don't know what to say there.

Answer 11

I'm all for them, except for one thing....

If you accidentally leave the door unlocked, and someone walks in on you - I want it to be a woman  :-)

Answer 12

As long as they have stalls and they put the seat down I'm all for sharing. But I really hate to fall in. Also men might get annoyed when the line for the rest room grows. It seems they never have a line and ours is a yard long.

Answer 13

there's alot more important things going on in the world right now. so why are we worrying about bathrooms?

Answer 14

I really don't think anyone gives a sh*t if it's a bathroom build for one person at a time.

But a bathroom with stalls in it, you've got to be kidding me. No women in her right mind would be pulling down her pants to p**s when she can see men walking around through the gaps in the stall door.

Answer 15

Well, you have to think about the fact that most public bathrooms are made to service several people at once, and at home you're not necessarily sharing a bathroom with a complete stranger who could possibly be a rapist or serial murderer.

There's a difference between equality, and things that are just plain inappropriate.

Answer 16

I feel it would be great for me.  I hate it when there's a line a mile long for the ladies' room, but the men have the same bathroom space (I think) and manage to pee and get out of there in 1/4 the time so they don't have to wait in line much.  If the same amount of bathroom space were pooled, the guys might have to wait more, but I wouldn't have to wait as much.   I'd rather have to put a toilet seat down occasionally than have to wait in line while my eyeballs are floating and the movie is starting in 2 minutes (or whatever.)   They could stick the urinals in an area that's visually blocked off.  I think it could work.

Answer 17

MI KAY DEAN, the talk of bathrooms is because feminists are running out of material.  

Answer 18

I don't really like sharing restroom with men because it's always uncomfortable.I love having my privacy and I certainly don't like guys staring at me when i look into the mirror to arrange my hair or even worse,my skirt.Plus,for some reasons,they tend to be a bit more....messy.I don't know,i just don't like sharing the bathroom with men.At home,well,since there's only one bathroom we have,what choice do we have? I don't like going to unisex restrooms at parties.....But if they're the only ones there,i can't complain.

Answer 19

Well, when you are in a work environment that is just mandatory for safety and liability issues. When you are at a party, nobody is really responsible for your safety. As far as people who don't really qualify in a specific gender, I don't know what they would do. Either use the bathroom of the s*x that you were born, or use the bathroom of the s*x that you currently look like.

Answer 20

I object strongly to the idea of gender neutral bathrooms in public places.  I do not mind sharing a bathroom with my husband and sons.  I do a lot of things with my family that I don't do with members of the public, and as far as I am concerned that includes sharing a bathroom.

People who don't fit into gender categories will have to make up their minds whether they are men or women for the purpose of using the bathroom.  It's tough on them no doubt, but who ever said life was meant to be easy?

Answer 21

I'm not opposed to it.

We have a swimming facility near us with co-ed .. family change rooms/washroom facilities. At first I was shocked to see that but its not a big deal.  Everything is behind closed doors. Theres no urinals for all to see.

I don't mind it at all now

Answer 22

Never really gave it much thought.

At my last job, we had a few either/or single bathrooms, but most of the women tended to avoid them because they smelled bad.

Answer 23

At school where hormones are flying high?  Well as long as you have free condom dispensers there...  Do you really think forced peeing together will help anything?  

Answer 24

Because there are discrepancies on it :p..

Some people are not even comfortable with being in the bat room not alone ;P, so being in the bath room with the other gender sucks.

Some women take too long in the bathroom for  men, and many men make a total disgrace of the bathrooms, than no one likes, but i think women would prefer their own bathrooms:P

PD.

Yeah, we should be worrying about world hunger, war, delincuncy, global warming, pollution, earthquakes etc....not neutral bathrooms >_>