Do folks think all bathrooms should be de-gendered?

[MineralMan]

216. Actually, that is not so obvious, really.

Please think about it. Many people are abused in their own homes.

My point is that in homes all across this country, people have learned to share bathroom facilities with people of different genders. Accommodations are made on a daily basis. It's almost a universal thing, although some homes now have enough bathrooms to allow individual use by family members.

I grew up with 5 people in my home and one bathroom. So did many of the people of my age group. We managed somehow to use the facilities and still maintain our privacy and safety. That does not mean that my sister didn't walk in on me a couple of times when I was a teenager and vice versa. We learned to knock before entering. It was sort of embarrassing.

The students in dorms all across the country are figuring out how to deal with this, too. It isn't really presenting much of a huge problem for them. It's what we get used to and what our situation is.

Yes, there are potential problems, regardless of how things are arranged. Predators probably don't pay much attention to signs, I'd guess. But that's a different problem.

I'd certainly never call for a wholesale change to gender-neutral facilities. On the other hand, the foofaraw about things like transgender folks using the facility they feel is most appropriate is way overblown. Very likely, very few people will ever encounter such a situation or know they have in the first place.

A larger problem in this society is a shortage of public restrooms, really. That has led to far more problems than any concern over gender signs on such facilities.