Do most colleges have coed bathrooms?
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Anonymous
| At DC’s NESCAC each floor votes on whether they want coed or single sex.....very democratic. |
Anonymous
I'm not the previous poster, but I don't even enjoy sharing a bathroom with my husband. |
Anonymous
I think that it's supposed to make life more comfortable for those who are trans-gender or nonbinary. |
Anonymous
Yes, women are much messier and grosser than men. |
Anonymous
Maybe that's why I disapprove-- I'm not really interested in challenging gender. If that's the rationale, I'd say abolishing single-sex bathrooms for everyone is kind of an extreme response. During my co-ed bathroom experience in the 90s, the men were reasonably respectful and the shower areas included changing booths. But I was uncomfortable using the toilet around men and wasted a lot of energy planning my bathroom use for times it was likely to be empty. There were a lot of aborted pooping attempts because a guy walked in. I remember, too, there was an otherwise nice guy who would leave his stubble in the sink every morning and a lot of noisy gargling, etc. Not impossible to manage, but it was certainly uncomfortable. Very different from using a girls-only bathroom in other dorms, which were much more comfortable spaces. |
Anonymous
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On move-in weekend, you'll love having to go to a different floor (or building!) to use the bathroom if the bathrooms are single sex.
Seriously, we all have co-ed bathrooms in our ho,es right now. The kids will be just fine. If there were incidents, the schools would nip it in the bud. They don't want the liability. |
Anonymous
Oh, do you have multiple toilets and shower stalls in each one of your bathrooms? That means you're cool taking a shower while Uncle Harry is in the bathroom with you taking a crap on the toilet and Aunt Suzy is peeing in the stall next to him, right? No. In our homes our bathrooms have one shower and one toilet with a lock on the bathroom door so that multiple people aren't walking in while we're using it unless we want them to be there with us. |
Anonymous
Really? I've found the opposite to be true. Hovering is a disaster and flushing things that shouldn't be flushed. . |
Anonymous
Not the poster to whom you're responding, but: An earlier post mentioned a dorm with bathrooms for men, women, and a bathroom for anyone. That would take care of transgender or nonbinary students. So would a policy of "use the bathroom that best fits your gender identity" etc. as well. |
Anonymous
| My son goes to a college with co-ed bathrooms. No problems at all. The shower stalls lock from the inside if people are feeling uneasy. |
Anonymous
| When I went to college it was against the rules to have gender specific bathrooms or showers. |
Anonymous
| Haverford grad from decades ago. Coed bathrooms didn't bother me or anyone I knew, but there were single - sex floors for people who wanted them. |
Anonymous
| DC's school voted for single sex but that went out the door almost right away. Entailed traveling to a different floor if your room didn't end up on the floor for your sex. Did not appear to be a problem. |
Anonymous
| Wait....does that mean I have to line up or wait to pee standing up at a seated toilet?! |
Anonymous
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Back in the mid-80s, my college called the bathrooms in certain dorms, "coed".
What it meant was that the rooms were paired and shared a single bathroom. The majority of the pairs of rooms had a guys room and a girls room although there was some trading to single sex that went on. |