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Started by Butterfly, April 03, 2009, 02:42:04 PM

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Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Whitman College Pioneer
By Chelsea Bissell   
April 2, 2009


http://whitmanpioneer.com/feature/2009/04/02/gender-neutral-bathrooms/


When the sexy men and women of "Ally McBeal" shared one bathroom in their progressive law firm, the mid-1990s audience was shocked. Sexually non-discriminate bathrooms were an anomaly at the time and something that only lawyers in too-short skirts with fantasies about dancing babies dealt with.

Gender-neutral bathrooms are no longer marginalized to lawyer-based dramedies and are now becoming more common in public areas. With a greater awareness of the GLBTQ community, a campaign for more genderneutral bathrooms is growing in popularity across the nation, with its strongest foothold on liberal arts campuses.
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JENNIFER

It would be a nice world if such a place as a gender-neutral bathroom was commonplace but it is unlikely as long as men act as men and women act accordingly.  A most unlikely event though, now that I live as a woman, I would be very uncomfortable if a man was in the next cubicle to me or weeing into a urinal with his willy exposed as I exit my booth after doing my stuff.

As a matter of record, I must qualify my comments by saying that I use unisex facilities due to my disabilities and there have been no problems owing to the fact that it is a one person facility.
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Nicky

Do you find penises offensive?

Pee is just pee and the other is the other. I don't think men and women differ there. I think segregated bathrooms are old fashioned.
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Janet_Girl

Maybe I am a little old fashion, but I also would not wish to come out of a stall and see a man standing there doing his thing. :icon_blush:  and I have nothing against penises, just not on me.  :o

There are gender neutral Bathrooms in Portland.  Some are commonly shared ones ( Gay bars  mostly ) and some are private stalls.  I have no problems using the women's restrooms where ever I go.

Janet

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tekla

We often have a co-ed bathroom situation at work.  There are separate boy/girl rooms, but they are almost half a block away and a huge set of stairs, so mostly we don't use them.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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placeholdername

My dad's office has gender neutral bathrooms (with all of two toilets).
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