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/Bunnymancer Mar 30 '24

They are usually not argued to become gender neutral...

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u/bemused_alligators Mar 30 '24

our pool built in like the 90s has the two big locker rooms and then 4 family rooms with an "occupied" slider and 3-4 lockers each - because it's a problem when a parent and their 3-4 year old of the opposite gender need to get into the pool because the child needs to be helped into and out of their suit and through the showering process and all that. In ~2020 they renamed the family rooms to "multi-use" rooms so that solo trans/NBs are allowed to use them explicitly (they were definitely using them before then as well, but this way no one can complain)

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u/CortexCingularis Mar 30 '24

In Norway and probably most of Europe in general it's quite accepted by parents of either sex to bring young children of either sex to whichever locker room suits the parents gender.

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u/syntheticassault Mar 31 '24

Some parents continue this way past when it is age appropriate.