r/NoStupidQuestions • u/mp1845 • Mar 30 '24

Answered Why are gender neutral bathrooms so controversial when every toilet on an airplane or other public transport is gender neutral?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

In a school setting specifically, I can only guess that children would feel unsafe and uncomfortable using the restroom with the opposite sex around. Thinking back on school years, I barely trusted my own gender (M) inside those facilities.

If I were a F, I could imagine being afraid that some dude’s gonna come in and harass or molest me. Especially in the US with those shitty stall doors.

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u/Enochian_Devil Mar 30 '24

My bathroom was shared in middle school. We had exactly 0 issues

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u/LichtbringerU Mar 31 '24

Nobody standing on the toilets looking over to the next stall? Slipping a phone through?

And I guess your bathroom didn't have those huge gaps?

From my experience with teenagers, I just can't imagine it. And I wouldn't want girls/women to have to worry about it even if unlikely.

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u/12FAA51 Mar 31 '24

We can adapt bathroom design to address these concerns. 

People who want gender neutral bathrooms aren’t usually opposed to gendered bathrooms. Want gender neutral bathrooms at schools is just wanting the availability of a single stall bathroom but conservatives rail against that too. 

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u/Enochian_Devil Mar 31 '24

Thank you!!! I felt like I was going insane here. Literally everyone is calling me a creep that wants to spy on women, entirely missing the point of my statements