How do you feel about genderless restrooms in schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re gross, just like the unisex ones at airports, coffee shops and restaurants. Pee all over the seat and floor and toilet.

Train yourself to stand and not touch anything.

They need to be cleaned and sanitized multiple times a day.

Ask any man if he thinks it’s clean and sanitary to send a little girl into an empty mens bathroom stall to pee. Resounding no. The bathrooms are disgusting.

Maybe if they found a way to force users to clean up after themselves.

And this is a secondary point to washing up or using the bathroom in a closed sink area with boys, girls, non binary. Awkward.

My uncle always went to single-stall women bathroom at rest stops because they were cleaner 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re gross, just like the unisex ones at airports, coffee shops and restaurants. Pee all over the seat and floor and toilet.

Train yourself to stand and not touch anything.

They need to be cleaned and sanitized multiple times a day.

Ask any man if he thinks it’s clean and sanitary to send a little girl into an empty mens bathroom stall to pee. Resounding no. The bathrooms are disgusting.

Maybe if they found a way to force users to clean up after themselves.

And this is a secondary point to washing up or using the bathroom in a closed sink area with boys, girls, non binary. Awkward.

My uncle always went to single-stall women bathroom at rest stops because they were cleaner 😂

Then your uncle is an a**hole. For making the women's bathroom dirty for the women, and for making the women wait to use the bathroom, like they always have to, except this time because a man was using theirs, when a men's room was likely both available and vacant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. The things that go on in bathrooms at schools are disturbing. All bathrooms should be singular. That way, gender does not matter but it is also safe and private.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. The things that go on in bathrooms at schools are disturbing. All bathrooms should be singular. That way, gender does not matter but it is also safe and private.

+1

Administrator here. Singular bathrooms in upper schools are also where bad things happen. Sometimes there is safety in numbers.

[Anonymous]

The genderless bathrooms at our kids' school are all single-user.

[Anonymous]

disturbing.

[Anonymous]

Our kids’ school is small so they basically converted the multi-stall restrooms into all gender/genderless bathrooms but there’s a sign on the main door that can be flipped to say “occupied” so only one student goes in at a time. This would be harder in large schools but it works well there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kids’ school is small so they basically converted the multi-stall restrooms into all gender/genderless bathrooms but there’s a sign on the main door that can be flipped to say “occupied” so only one student goes in at a time. This would be harder in large schools but it works well there.

Our kids' k-8 did too. They took the urinals out of the boys room too. I would have preferred they kept it as is as there were already some single stall/single room toilets elsewhere in the building. I am not aware of the "occupied" signs, which is OK, but even that could be used for the wrong reasons. I know there was a story a few months back about an assault in a genderless bathroom in one of the VA schools.

[Anonymous]

I think this is called "tyranny by the minority"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is called "tyranny by the minority"

yes, kinda like bike lanes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. The things that go on in bathrooms at schools are disturbing. All bathrooms should be singular. That way, gender does not matter but it is also safe and private.

Another teacher, and I totally agree.

Especially MS and HS bathrooms.

Pre-pandemic, smoking, vaping, and hooking up got so bad at my HS that every restroom had all but 1 stall locked. Then by the end of the year, restrooms were locked except during class changes and lunch when there were teacher & admin monitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. The things that go on in bathrooms at schools are disturbing. All bathrooms should be singular. That way, gender does not matter but it is also safe and private.

+1

Administrator here. Singular bathrooms in upper schools are also where bad things happen. Sometimes there is safety in numbers.

Safety in mixed gender numbers?

[Anonymous]

It is my understanding that Gaithersburg HS was the first MCPS school to try out genderless bathrooms. The one I saw was a single stall bathroom that was probably previously used by staff. It was right next to a girls bathroom & it was implemented pretty seamlessly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. The things that go on in bathrooms at schools are disturbing. All bathrooms should be singular. That way, gender does not matter but it is also safe and private.

Another teacher, and I totally agree.

Especially MS and HS bathrooms.

Pre-pandemic, smoking, vaping, and hooking up got so bad at my HS that every restroom had all but 1 stall locked. Then by the end of the year, restrooms were locked except during class changes and lunch when there were teacher & admin monitors.

Sounds like the Administrator who posted previously may be out of touch with what is really going on at their school.

[Anonymous]

Are there schools in the area that have done this OTHER THAN through single bathrooms (or turning multiple stall bathrooms into singles)?