In my secondary school, it was a small school as far as the building went, so to save space they operated exclusively unisex toilets.

The "bathrooms" were simply open-plan onto the main corridors, with sinks on one side, and maybe 15 individual cubicles on the other. There were no urinals, no gendered spaces, once outside the cubicle you'd be in view of anyone walking through the corridor. There were 4 stories including the ground floor, with these unisex toilets on levels 1 and 3.

Never did anything happen, never heard any complaints from anyone about them, it was, dare I say, perfect.

Petition for the abolishment of traditional gendered spaces, individual cubicles is all we need.

I like it, but I would put a urinal in as well. Not because as a male I would appreciate that more, but as a male, I've seen what other savages do to the toilet seat when they have to hit a stationary target from a couple feet away. I don't want to punish sitters with that.

a mint candy to only people who wash their hands.

It all goes back to pavlov

Same, but I'd also offer a second mint to folks who show initiative and restock the toilet paper when it runs low.

A school did this. They converted a gendered restroom into several private, non-gendered toilet areas, by installing full-height walls and doors around the toilets. The law in the state said that if the hand washing area was considered a private space, it was a "changing area", and must be segregated by gender. But, if this space was not "private", it was only a hand washing area and not a "changing area".

So they ensured the hand washing area was considered "public" by cutting a hole in the wall between the hand washing area and the hallway.

And they pissed off pretty much everyone on every side of the issue.

Nah put handwash inside stalls pls. Saved my life at new job where i got dog poo on my shoes and could clean it privately.

I would call this a shared genderless restroom with stalls, but yes, I think that is the ideal. Red Rock Amphitheatre has a restroom like this. The stalls are all nice full concrete stalls, not the common ones in the US with huge gaps, but everyone stands in line together and takes whatever stall opens, and I haven't seen an issue in the few times I've been there. Not only does it remove any gender issues with assigning restrooms, but it also evens out the lines between men and women, where the men's restrooms basically never have lines.

Add a 2nd room that's just urinals and no gender requirements.

I can kind of understand why places like women's domestic violence shelters and women's prisons need a legal definition of "woman" in order to define who is allowed in them (and have no opinion on what it should be). Places where there is actual physical or logistical infrastructure in place to make sure men don't enter them…

But bathrooms? Someone wanting to commit sex crimes (or similar) against women in bathrooms is just going to walk into them and do exactly that, they aren't going to change their legal gender just to do that because that doesn't make it either easier or harder to physically get in there.

They do, its being pushed in the UK a fair bit lately.

That's the entire point. One of the goals of the heritage foundation is to criminalize trans people and this is one way they're trying to do it.

Ally McBeal’s law firm had one like that almost 30 years ago. You’d think there would have been more of them popping up, at least in law firms.

Thats what they did at my climbing Gym (Urban Climb). They're full length cubicles and seem soundproof pretty much.

Gendered bathrooms only triggers homophobes in practice. If you had a unisex bathroom, they wouldn't even notice. And on facebook at least, it always seems to be the people who seem highly abusive, who you wouldn't want near your kids anyway who make a big deal about it.

At concerts here in Australia, nrgptr switching to unisex, it was fairly common for many women to line up for the mens bathrooms (as they they were often less busy)

If your first instinct is that "they're going to rape your kids", the problem is you

I love this. The one time I used a gender neutral bathroom I was annoyed because there were no urinals. Meaning I had to wait for the slower sitting pissers.

95% of the time I'm using a public restroom it's to drain the main vein in the piss trough and move on.

Half the public washrooms in Toronto are like that. Many of them have a sink in the booth itself.

The Museum of Sex in NYC has a unisex bathroom similar to this. TBH I'm not sure if it has urinals tucked in it somewhere (since I don't use them, I didn't look for them.) Otherwise, it was one open place without an entry door, with full-length stalls, and communal sinks just like in your diagram.

It also had a temporary exhibit that was a bouncy castle where all the floor and walls were tits. It wasn't as fun as it sounds, though, since if you jumped on a tit you fell through to the hard floor beneath. Still a fun concept! Just needed a little work to make it safer.

I’ve actually used a bathroom designed exactly like this before. Was definitely weird experience as an American

It would not be completely solved. Women are often harassed by men unwilling to leave them alone. The women's bathroom is used as a safe space to basically hide from men.

Yes a woman could hide in a stall, but there's less plausible deniability for a man waiting in front of the door of a woman's bathroom (which looks and is creepy as fuck) than for a man inside an non-gendered bathroom

I hate that this is how things are, but women have very few places free of the patriarchy.

You know, sometimes I don't realize how good it is around me (central bum fucked egypt) until I read about these experiences. I got a little food truck bazaar near me with the only permanent structure being a stage/wine bar/bathroom. There is only one bathroom, and it has a sign with the classic stick figures, and a half half mix of the two, and an alien that reads "whatever, just wash your hands."

I also see some pride flags in front of businesses downtown and no crazies making the local news by tearing them down.

Yeah if anything these laws gave men the justification to angrily and violently enter women's restrooms. And that's the purpose of them, it's just that shockingly often these men do that against someone they weren't intended to target doing so.

There was so much harassment/assault happening in the boys room in my elementary/middle school my baby trans ass thought trans men and trans women all used the women's room for safety.

It is. They are complying with the law to the letter with the sole aim of pissing off the lawmakers, and succeeding.