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.

Wait....does that mean I have to line up or wait to pee standing up at a seated toilet?!

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.

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.

When I went to college it was against the rules to have gender specific bathrooms or showers.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a co-ed bathroom in one college dorm and hated it. Soon DD will start in a school with co-ed bathrooms and says she doesn't mind.

But at the end of the day, I don't really see any advantage to co-ed bathrooms. Tell me, please, why anyone would consider this a good idea?!

I think that it's supposed to make life more comfortable for those who are trans-gender or nonbinary.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:OP again - Haverford is one of the college that leans towards all-gender bathrooms. Student groups apparently vote each year about whether they'll share the bathrooms, and they usually vote yes. My DD is not as conservative as I am, so she may not mind, but I really don't want to send her to an environment where this is normal.
https://www.haverford.edu/residential-life/first-year-housing/living-haverford

Someth8ng is very wrong with the students and education at that school if female students are voting to share bathrooms with male college students. How do they handle the smell and the pee everywhere? The education system has failed these young women.

Really? I've found the opposite to be true. Hovering is a disaster and flushing things that shouldn't be flushed. .

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a co-ed bathroom in one college dorm and hated it. Soon DD will start in a school with co-ed bathrooms and says she doesn't mind.

But at the end of the day, I don't really see any advantage to co-ed bathrooms. Tell me, please, why anyone would consider this a good idea?!

I think that it's supposed to make life more comfortable for those who are trans-gender or nonbinary.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:OP again - Haverford is one of the college that leans towards all-gender bathrooms. Student groups apparently vote each year about whether they'll share the bathrooms, and they usually vote yes. My DD is not as conservative as I am, so she may not mind, but I really don't want to send her to an environment where this is normal.
https://www.haverford.edu/residential-life/first-year-housing/living-haverford

Someth8ng is very wrong with the students and education at that school if female students are voting to share bathrooms with male college students. How do they handle the smell and the pee everywhere? The education system has failed these young women.

Yes, women are much messier and grosser than men.

Anonymous wrote:I had a co-ed bathroom in one college dorm and hated it. Soon DD will start in a school with co-ed bathrooms and says she doesn't mind.

But at the end of the day, I don't really see any advantage to co-ed bathrooms. Tell me, please, why anyone would consider this a good idea?!

I think that it's supposed to make life more comfortable for those who are trans-gender or nonbinary.

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Anonymous wrote:One more reason the fertility rate is in free fall .

How does this even make sense to YOU let alone other people?

I'm not the previous poster, but I don't even enjoy sharing a bathroom with my husband.

At DC’s NESCAC each floor votes on whether they want coed or single sex.....very democratic.