NC State Technician Online

And at a university where people are trying harder to accommodate the transgender community, gender neutral bathrooms sound like a good idea.

According to Madeline Goss, one of the students proposing the idea, the money for installing single stall bathrooms in new buildings could come from future construction costs. That's an easy accommodation to make.

The thing I keep wondering about gender-neutral bathrooms is:

Are they being installed because we feel more comfortable using them;

Or because the cisgendered feel more comfortable with us using them?

In other words, who do 'unisex' bathrooms benefit?

Karen

If there are only gender neutral ones, everybody i suppose.

our new uni buildings have both male and female loos, and single ones dotted around, and disabled loos, if you want one on your own, its not hard to find one i still prefer the normal ladies loo, much more sociable
R

Quote from: Rachael on August 24, 2007, 07:08:33 AMi still prefer the normal ladies loo, much more sociable
R

The point of my post exactly!  I am being prevented at work from socializing with my same-gender coworkers because one or two feel so uncomfortable that they have to hide me in shame and not tell anyone else of the arrangements.  They dare to tell me it's to 'protect my rights', too.  But I've found a majority of the women I've had the opportunity to tell of this 'arrangement' have no problem with me using one of the more public rooms, and thought that I used the 'loo at the back of the building because I was the one that felt uncomfortable! (I have to be careful who I approach and how I tell, too, because I've been put under a 'rule' to not talk to others about it...)

Karen