"All Gender Bathrooms"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How exactly do these work for a 'normal' girl- she is straight, not confused about her gender identity at all and conventionally modest. She isn't interested in sharing a dressing room, shower stall, or row of toilets a la Marine barracks style with random guys or lesbians.

The same way it worked back in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Wellesley in the 80’s and even we had coed bathrooms. Visiting men were not required to leave the building and pee in the lake.

I went to Notre Dame in the 90s and we had all-female dorms and all female-bathrooms. (And, of course, separate all-male dorms with all-male bathrooms.).

For male visitors, there was a guest bathroom down on the ground floor.

It is still the same way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How exactly do these work for a 'normal' girl- she is straight, not confused about her gender identity at all and conventionally modest. She isn't interested in sharing a dressing room, shower stall, or row of toilets a la Marine barracks style with random guys or lesbians.

There may be some single sex bathrooms but she will have to share those with lesbians along with the rest of the campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Wellesley in the 80’s and even we had coed bathrooms. Visiting men were not required to leave the building and pee in the lake.

I did too and was just thinking about that. I think we voted as a floor as to which bathroom would be co-ed. And there was a sign you could slide to indicate if there were men or women in there. Not a big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to school in the 1990s.

I did in 1999. I lived in a women's dorm at Purdue. Men were not allowed on the floors past 10 pm and never in the bathrooms. What's your point here, exactly?

My husband went to Purdue in the late 90s and I can assure you men were upstairs in the women’s dorms after 10pm.

I never experienced it myself. Of course it happened. My point was, the 90s weren't some free love era with orgy in the dorm hallways.

There was a lot of casual sex back then. Way more than now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to school in the 1990s.

Fairly confident there were lesbians using the women’s bathrooms in the 90s. There certainly were when I was at Bryn Mawr. 😂 (For the record, none of them hit on me, a straight woman. Shockingly, they are no more interested in straight women than straight women are interested in them.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If my daughter goes to an all girls' school, will there be separate bathrooms for straight and lesbian women?

Great question for the TERFs.

[Anonymous]

1) It just means anyone can use it.

2) Don’t assume that your daughter is “normal” and a gay or transgender person is not. That is offensive.

3) A lesbian is a female , the same gender as your heterosexual daughter.

Please get educated, especially if you are responsible for raising a child in this day and age. You come across like you have been imprisoned in a religious cult underground since the 1950’s.

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Most college dorms have bathrooms that both genders can use. They did even when I went to college in the 1970’s. Where do you think male guests were supposed to go to the bathroom?

Some single sex dorm floors have a bathroom reserved for a single gender.

Gender is not the same as sexuality. You are very confused.

(Turn off Fox).

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Anonymous wrote:How exactly do these work for a 'normal' girl- she is straight, not confused about her gender identity at all and conventionally modest. She isn't interested in sharing a dressing room, shower stall, or row of toilets a la Marine barracks style with random guys or lesbians.

There may be some single sex bathrooms but she will have to share those with lesbians along with the rest of the campus.

She might have to share her dorm room with a lesbian. That dies not mean leper.

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Anonymous wrote:Coed bathrooms were never a thing at Virginia Tech.

I would be so embarrassed having to poop in a bathroom with boys. How mortifying. Poor girls.

What about lesbians, OO doesn’t want lesbians in the stall next to her child either

Not even close to the same thing as sharing a bathroom with boys.

When they are there to witness it, boys will always make fun of girls that fart or poop. Ugh, have you imagine? I would live in constant anxiety about when I could poop.

What? You sound very odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread, I'm actually disturbed at the number of men who seem to feel entitled to access to naked women. If this isn't an argument for same-sex bathrooms, I don't know what is.

Women do not walk around same sex bathrooms naked .

WTH are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The entire time I was in college, nobody saw me naked unless I specifically wanted them to. I lived in corridor style dorms where I had to walk down the hallway to the bathrooms, and then inside the bathroom, there was a toilet section with stalls, shower section (with stalls) and sink section. I just wore a bathrobe and it was a non-issue.

Of course.

College is supposed to be different than your parents’ home. You want your child to grow.

This is part of life, and she can decide what she is comfortable with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Wellesley in the 80’s and even we had coed bathrooms. Visiting men were not required to leave the building and pee in the lake.

Gosh.... I'd kind of forgotten about this. It was the woman's shower and bathroom but the host always had to be outside and announce that there was a man in the bathroom as other people went into so they could decide..

Not commenting on that but I just completely forgot about it!

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Anonymous wrote:Hampden Sydney had literally one large tiled room with 10 shower heads on the wall. Zero partitans or curtains. It was single sex, so that part wasn't an issue but if you expected any sort of privacy while washing your privates, you were SOL

I would have literally NOT applied to that school based solely on that fact. There is NO way I'd do that. My mom and I once went into a clothing store we'd never been to and it turned out there was a communal dressing room. I noped out of there so fast it made my mother's head spin. She tried to be all "it's no big deal" and I told her to go ahead and change in front of strangers.

I guess you weren't an athlete. Not sure why you are capitalizing your NOT and NO...you realize you are the outlier (bathing/changing in a communal single-sex room) on this one, right?