Restroom doors

[LSLGuy]

@BigT

I just can’t see any legitimate concerns once it’s not easy for someone to peek into the stall next to them.

In general I agree with you. Ref the snip above I have a couple of quibbles:

1. As a man, I’m a bit concerned about ever being in an enclosed windowless unmonitored space with one woman and no 3rd witnesses. “He said she said” is a cliché for a reason. I’d rather not be there when/where everybody is fiddling with, and thinking about, their bodies. There are enough loonies in the world and even false accusations are dangerous, expensive, and embarrassing.
2. As admitted above, IANA woman. But I bet there are many women who have similar concerns, but far more about being attacked in a place designed exactly to make being hidden from view easy.

I agree with your larger point that the transition will feel far weirder than the reality. Absent COVID and with normal amounts of public interaction, after a year 90% of us will be wondering what the fuss was ever about. But the last 10% of us will be more like the guy reported in this other current thread hitting on bathroom gender issues:

Uncle Sam Does Not Belong in Girls’ Dorms or Showers

My reply to the ‘I don’t want men putting on a skirt so they can spy on my daughter/wife’ is typically to explain that by pushing back on this rule, what they’re saying is that they’d prefer to have this person, a transgender male, in the bathroom with their daughter, right? Also, they don’t seem to understand, not that I’d expect them to, that a man throwing on a dress isn’t trans or gender fluid, he’s a cross dresser and even would still have to use the mens bathroom. Wearing women’s clothing…

IOW totally weirded out by the idea of shared facilities. Given the nexus between resistance to change, religion, traditional attitudes to gender and to sex, and hypermacho men and hyper shy/retiring victim-women, I don’t see this idea going down well in large swathes of our exceptionally ignorant and backwards country.