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I believe that all single-user bathrooms should be unisex. CMV.

To clarify, I'm talking about public bathrooms meant to be used by one person at a time. These bathrooms generally have deadbolt locks on the doors, have a toilet but no urinal, and (with the exception of maybe specialized waste receptacles) don't have anything that you wouldn't find in both types of bathroom. Given this, I don't see a reason why you would label that sort of bathroom specifically for men or women.

If the goal of segregating these bathrooms is to keep differently gendered people from seeing each other, it's single user, so that's not an issue. If it's to offer specialized equipment, most of the single user bathrooms I've encountered (for both sexes) don't do this anyway.

Edit: Wow, there is, um, a lot of stuff here! In case anyone is interested in whether my view has actually be changed, so far it has not. The three most common comments I've seen by far are:

1) "[GENDER X] is dirtier and I don't want to deal with that."

Let's presume that one gender is dirtier in general than another. Does that mean that we should essentially quarantine that gender into their own space? The implication there is that, as a member of a gender, am somehow responsible for messes that I didn't make and should be subjected to them based on that? Doesn't seem right to me. Also, in cases where you have 2 unisex restrooms, everyone will be able to hop over in the event that one is just *completely* trashed.

2) "[GENDER X] takes too long in the restroom, I don't want to wait."

There's some great math on this further down the thread, but the consensus is: while have two unisex restrooms and one line might make *your* wait a little longer, depending on your gender, it's going to make the *average* wait time lower overall. Sounds like a good tradeoff to me.

3 "I treat restrooms like this anyway!"

Great! However, not everyone does, and more important, not everyone has the expectation that others do. Without everyone being on the same page, we lose a lot of the benefits of unisex restrooms, so I think changing the labeling is relevant even if, say, 40% of people already treat restrooms this way. Wouldn't we want 100% instead?
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This would be fine, except that in this case one gender is much filthier, smelly and prone to make a mess everywhere.

So yes, until women learn to leave the bathroom clean, we'll have separate loos, thanks!