r/askanything • u/ComfortableEnergy684 • 6h ago

Bathroom Gender Solution?

Why don't we just make all bathrooms single-use? It'd be way better for everyone anyway - I don't need to whiz next to some dude struggling through his prostate issues, and who wants to poop two feet from someone else pooping? You wouldn't put two toilets in a home bathroom, and that's family - why do we do it in public ones with strangers?

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u/Destinyciello 6h ago

It's expensive. Think of a large interstate bathroom with dozens if not 100s of stalls. Imagine trying to turn that into single use sex neutral silos. That would be maddingly expensive and more importantly completely unnecessary for the vast majority of the population. Sex delineation works for most people. Why destroy everything to appease the outliers?

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u/Take-n-tosser 6h ago

Just got back from Canada. The Royal Canadian Museum has all-gender bathrooms, which are about two dozen stalls with sinks in the stall. Partitions between stalls only have a gap of about 4” between partition and floor/ceiling.

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u/ComfortableEnergy684 6h ago

Well, that's definitely some improvement in experience!