Hang ups? That's what you think a victim being triggered is, not PTSD or a serious issue, it's a hangup to you? OK, and the second assumption about being in a busy place. Are you under the impression that there is some sort of force field provided by busy? Not to burst the bubble but the poor woman assaulted in plain sight on a busy Philly train a little bit ago and every girl attacked in the middle of a busy frat party might disagree, how about group attacks?
I don't believe in convincing people of anything so I won't go there but I'd suggest that maybe you might want to give things a bit more thought.
If anyone is really worried about that sort of thing simply based on people of the opposite sex being in a place where people are just doing their business, I'm not sure what can be helped about that. But if anyone is really suffering PTSD from some sort of event, there are typically single-occupancy facilities. However, men have been attacked by other men in restrooms before but I don't think that banning other men is a solution for that.
In other parts of the world, they're looking at Americans thinking that these are pretty silly hangups. I mean - there are sidewalk urinals and while not every place has them, shared facilities are pretty common.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/ten...-time-at-australian-open-20200120-p53szj.html
The biggest problem seems to be slobs. I certainly agree that it's incumbent on everyone to at least close the stall door, because I don't like that even in a men's room. But then again I've walked in on someone in a port-a-potty or single-occupancy room who failed to close the door. I also had a woman complain that I didn't lock the door in a single-occupancy room when she walked in, although my only reason for being there was to wash my hands and then avoid touching the door.
Hidden within almost every single office, there is an anonymous person spoken about in whispers: someone whose toilet behaviour is so heinous that they garner nicknames like “phantom pooer” or “wet bandit”.
Many are concerned that with the introduction of unisex bathrooms, these disgusting people could soon be given free rein to unleash their bad habits on entire businesses. And this could be having a not insignificant impact on bathroom use.
Gender neutral toilets have really taken off in recent years. Google and Facebook were among the big tech companies in the UK to join employers like WeWork, the BBC, Channel 4, Lloyds of London, Barclays, RBS, Wagamama, HSBC and the British Army in offering unisex bathrooms.
Many more companies are considering whether to follow their lead and turn their toilets into gender neutral spaces, to become more inclusive to the transgender community and respond to lobbying. But the stakes are high: the massive backlash that some redesigns have already had show that these efforts can create new problems.
In 2018, female Home Office employees refused to use brand new £36,000 gender neutral toilets when they were first introduced because they kept on walking in on male colleagues using the toilet with the door open. A notice had to be placed outside the unisex toilets at the government department to stop this behaviour, stating: “Women are finding use of the toilets quite distressing and are not using these toilets as a result.”
If there's only one, why label it anything? How about just "Restroom"? (Or even better, "Washroom" but I guess that's a different thread...)
