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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Why have gendered bathrooms at all?
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The original reasoning was likely rooted in Victorian-era ideas about "modesty" and "protecting the fairer sex" from men, much in the same way a lot of current-day political narrative talks about protecting women from men who use transsexuality to gain permission to these "safe spaces" and act like perverts.
A lot of why they're still gendered is our building codes. The way it works is one has to forecast the number of male and female occupants of a building and calculate a minimum number of required toilets for them
on the basis of sex. It is assumed that the female occupants will proportionally need more of them than the males. For example for assembly occupancies it's assumed you need twice as many toilets for females vs. males.