THW: Encourage the construction of gender-neutral bathrooms

Bathrooms should be gendered to protect the privacy and safety of those using them. When one walks into a bathroom, they are entering that bathroom under the impression that they will be able to carry out their business without being disturbed. However, building more gender-neutral bathrooms will disrupt this core principle of bathrooms. With gender-neutral bathrooms, privacy could be violated. While most of society might carry out business without incident, there will be some who cannot contain themselves when presented with the opportunity to sneak a peek at the other gender if allowed in the same space. Whether it's due to perversion on a stranger, or feelings for another person, simply put these people will ruin the privacy of a bathroom if presented with an opportunity to be in the same room. And imagine the implications if the one being spied upon was underage! If not reported, these incidents can lead to serious problems, and there's not a guarantee they always will be reported. Gender-neutral bathrooms create awkward scenarios. When in the restroom, those of the same gender tend not to speak to one another to avoid awkwardness. However, in a gender-neutral bathroom, there might be a man who has just finished crapping standing at the sink next to a woman doing her makeup. These scenarios can become extraordinarily awkward, especially if the two are strangers. Unlike in gendered bathrooms, these encounters will cross the line between how open two strangers of opposite gender should be with one another. With gender-neutral bathrooms, children will become problematic. In gendered bathrooms, the problem of explaining different genitalia to children is not forced on parents, but rather the parents are given the power to give their children "the talk" whenever they feel appropriate. However, gender neutral bathrooms will throw a wrench in this system. Children have a much higher chance of becoming curious when forced to carry out bathroom duties in the same room, and therefore have a higher likelihood to ask questions to a member of the opposite gender. While this may happen anyways, with gender-neutral bathrooms this problem will explode. In summer camps, as well as schools and pools, bathrooms are strictly segregated, with no child above the age of 7 allowed in the opposite gender's bathroom. These rules are put in place to protect the children as well as to shelter those who may wander into the opposite gender's bathroom to find an unfamiliar scene. After all, young boys can be known to pull their pants all the way down when using the urinal, and while I don't know from experience, there are probably some young children who may forget to pull their pants up. This problem escalates further when the bathroom doubles as a changing room, just think of the implications! The problem also continues through the high school level, now with the added concern that it is against the law to place cameras inside bathrooms. Creating gender-neutral bathrooms makes it easier for a young couple to have sex in a private place, and the problem has escalated further. Simply put: If bathrooms are not gendered, problems arise from those perverted members of society, as well as curious children who do not understand what the difference is between males and females. Gender-neutral bathrooms create more problems than they solve, and they cannot be allowed if we are to protect the right to privacy of our people.