A Simple Solution To The Bathroom Wars

[Doubting Thomas]

Changing building codes is always a big thing. How would opening  both doors to both sexes change building codes?

I imagine that would be the interim solution for existing buildings, until building owners decide to close one restroom, take out all the plumbing, and turn it into a storage closet.

But for new buildings under construction, it would be a simple matter to design them with a single unisex restroom for each floor.

And then again, I guess building owners wouldn't have to go to unisex restrooms, but they'd have to make sure they are clearly marked as not unisex. Not that it would matter much because there would still be individual stalls for people do conduct business in.

[Cecelia]

I think looking at Gender-Neutral solutions is a good idea for public areas to start looking into. How they go about it--well America is full of ingenuity. Let's put it to use. I don't think it should be law any time soon, but searching for a solution should start.

[brewer]

Free urostomy/colonostomy combo surgery for those that are having issues?

Would give them two more orifices to worry about.

[Edwardo Piet]

Bathroom Wars? I want that game. When's it coming out? And do I get to shoot people with my pee pee?

[paulpablo]

Unisex bathrooms are the simple solution.  

If all restrooms were unisex, no one would have to declare their sex in order to pee.  It would also curb the hysteria over transgenders who merely wish to releive theselves.  Simple.  

Unisex restrooms would also solve a number of other social difficulties including: adults who need physical help in the restroom, but whose primary caretaker, or companion for the day, is of the opposite sex;  parents or other persons looking after children of the opposite sex; and people looking after retarded people or people with dementia who are of the opposite sex; persons cleaning restrooms used by the opposite sex.

Unisex restrooms would also even out the line between the mens and the womens rooms.  Urinals could be partitioned off from the main room to allow men (anyone with a functioning penis in this case) to do their business with the usual speed.  

It would be considerably cheaper in buildings where more than 60 or 70 percent of the people using the building are of the same sex.

Many college dorms already have unisex restrooms without incident.   Many business have made single stall restrooms unisex already.  Portland business are building with single sex multi stall restrooms already. So far the sky hasn't fallen.  There is no sudden uptick in sexual assault.  

Why not go unisex?

I don't have a problem with the idea but then I'm not a woman.  I can imagine there might be some protest against the idea after a few sex offences on women, by men occur in unisex restrooms.

Sexual assaults, incidents of voyeurism probably won't significantly increase but I imagine they will be much more easily carried out.

Also just thinking about the toilets in my workplace, I think some women may want to go back to having their own toilets once they've heard the noises of a guy taking a real loud dump in the stall next to them and the mental scarring that can cause.

And to say there's been 0 incidents in college dorms with unisex restrooms is probably not true.

I searched a little and found this article and in general I just find it difficult to believe that if all these college dorms have unisex toilets there won't be any incidents.

https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2015...ge-campus/

This isn't to say I'm totally against the idea at all.  I'm just saying it's really easy for us to all talk about it on this forum and laugh at the idea that anyone would be weird enough to commit acts of voyeurism or rape in a bathroom and how we wouldn't do anything of the sort.  But sex offences will happen in these unisex toilets just like they happen in mostly male toilet areas now, to what degree it would happen I don't know.

Sorry but men are just weird, myself included.  Just type in toilet voyeur cams into google and look at the extent of the results if you don't believe me.

[Cato]

The only reason I would be against it is due to my experience cleaning public restrooms as part of jobs I had as a teenager. It may be counterintuitive, but women's restrooms are 1000 times nastier than men's.

[Jenny A]

Bathroom Wars? I want that game. When's it coming out? And do I get to shoot people with my pee pee?

Well no. That might lead to riots:

[Jenny A]

The only reason I would be against it is due to my experience cleaning public restrooms as part of jobs I had as a teenager. It may be counterintuitive, but women's restrooms are 1000 times nastier than men's.

I cleaned a few in my youth, and you are right. But unisex ones in my experience are cleaner than either.

[vorlon13]

This whole thread makes my skin crawl . . .

[Jenny A]

This whole thread makes my skin crawl . . .

Do tell?