My alma mater has established gender-free restrooms!

[ellisonz]

"This restroom may be used by any person regardless of gender identity or expression. Single-gender restrooms are one floor up."

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[99th_Monkey]

1. My alma mater had ONE such restroom

In the ART department of course, and this was back in the 80's at University of Oregon in Eugene.

It made me prouder to be an Oregonian.

[msongs]

2. is it a one person at a time restroom? nt

[ellisonz]

3. Not sure.

I know they were debating for years doing it for the sports center. Most dorms are mixed-gender. I wouldn't be surprised if it was campus wide. I'd hope so.

Asking on facebook. I will update this post and PM you when I get an answer.

[msongs]

4. so how is women and men peeing together such a great thing? nt

[ellisonz]

5. Read the sign closely.

This has to do more with stopping discrimination against transgendered students than about boys and girls peeing together.

[Jim Lane]

8. There's one at a restaurant in NYC that isn't.

You walk into the sole rest room. On your left is a row of sinks. On your right is a row of stalls, and I think the doors extend down to the floor (contrary to what I've seen in gender-segregated rest rooms). There are no urinals.

It gave me quite a start when I walked into what I thought was the men's room and saw two women standing at the sinks. One adapts quickly enough, though. If we had all grown up with that setup, having separate rest rooms would probably seem odd.

[ellisonz]

13. Nope. These are multiple stall bathrooms in the campus center.

Getting back to you...

[Bohunk68]

6. In early 1979

February, as I recall, I was in Rochester, NY and the GAGV (Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley) was in the planning stages for the 1979 March on Washington for GLBT rights. At our conference, we established that all restrooms were open to all. I recall very vividly having a conversation with Mary Lou Wells and her following me into the restroom and continuing our conversation as I stood at the urinal and several women used the stalls. It was absolutely liberating (pun not intended). The GAGV ended up co-ordinating Upstate NY for the March. What a day in October that was, being at the Washington Monument and looking at all my GLBT brothers and sisters!

I remember walking down the Mall and seeing an older, grey-bearded man in combat boots, leather kilt and vest with a chain with alligator clips attached to the longest nipples I have ever seen before or since.

[2pooped2pop]

7. I don't know

men are really really messy in public bathrooms. I prefer the sprinkled seaties of the girls room to the pissed all over the whole damn place of the mens rooms.

Of course, being female, I have only been in 9 or 10 male bathrooms to get my opinion. (mostly teenage years or job related)

However, as a response to whichever state was trying to keep transgendered individuals in their "as born" bathrooms, I think this is a great response.

Good luck with that, but I'm peeing upstairs.

[stevenleser]

12. Public men's bathrooms are horrific. One of the worst parts of being male IMHO

The difference between mens and womens public restrooms is night and day.

[johnnypneumatic]

9. I went to Paris last October and stayed in a hostel, and

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the main floor restrooms were unisex. there were three toilets, and the normal sinks and paper towels and stuff. But instead of the stalls that are open at the bottom and the top like most restrooms in the US, each toilet was a separate private room, with a real door. This made so much sense to me. As a high school kid, I always hated those open stalls at school.

Upstairs was a little different. There were no bathrooms in the hostel rooms. the men's restroom (urinals and a private toilet room) and shower room always had the doors open to the hallway. I saw a woman go into the men's room and use the toilet. There was also an american type open "stall" in the shower room. There was a separate women's room at the other end of the floor, but the door was always closed and I didn't look inside.

[Ratty]

10. That's nothing. The hostels I stayed in had coed showers - no stalls or curtains

These were in Switzerland or Austria if I recall. As a gay man I was forced to see things I'd hoped never to have to see in my life.

Just kidding. It WAS disconcerting but I didn't run out shrieking or anything.

As far as coed bathrooms, the student coops I lived in back in my college days in the 80s were coed. All the stalls had doors and the showers had curtains. It certainly wasn't a big deal or require any kind of adjustment. Though I wasn't used to hearing women in the stalls next to me fart out shitty poops as loud as any man.

[William769]

11. Recommended.