Gender neutral bathrooms.

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Frankly, we need them. We either need single seaters, or a bathroom that is known to be gender neutral. If the bathroom is not a single seater, with a lockable door, then normal male and female bathrooms should be also on site. Why am I adamant about this? I hear people on here writing that they feel if they have female bits they need to go to the women's room no matter what. And if they have male bits they need to go to the male room no matter what. I completely and utterly disagree with that. And here is why. By saying that you are saying you are complete ok with a person who totally looks like a dude, in the last stages of transition, going into the women's room next to your 12 year old daughter, just because that person doesn't yet have men's bits? I would not be. Nor would I be, if I was that person, feel comfortable going into the women's room, looking like a man, esp not if there might be young children, as I would not want to make others uncomfortable. Would you want someone who looked like a woman going into a bathroom with your teenaged boy? Would you want someone who appeared to be a man going to pee next to your wife? Places stop people from going in the wrong bathroom, if you look male and you try and walk into the women's room, someone is prob going to call the cops and charge you with peeping or something. What do you have to do, drop your pants and prove you are a woman? Come on. PLUS, people can act horrible. And I have no doubt that someone looking female walking into the men's room very well might get harassed. And someone looking male walking into the women's room would mostly likely be met by screams, possibly mace, and cops called. No. We need gender neutral bathrooms. If they are single seater, they can be a whoever bathroom, family, dad with young daughter, mom with son, etc etc. If they are multiseater, then have more on site that aren't so open. I see gender neutral/family bathrooms at airports all the time, you use that, you are agreeing to the fact you can run into ANYONE in that bathroom. And I have before, because the woman's line was stupid long.