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Should Gender Neutral Bathrooms Exist At Public Facilities?
Should Gender Neutral Bathrooms Exist At Public Facilities?
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Should Gender Neutral Bathrooms Exist At Public Facilities?
The concept of gender-neutral bathrooms exist at public facilities is one of the most discussing topics among people. In the current time, most of the people (both males and females) feel uncomfortable and unsafe in gender bathrooms at a public place when they find anything which may protect their right(s) of using bathrooms. In 2009-10 after three years of the election of DC for the protection of rights, 69% transgender respondents to the survey denied access to verbally harassed, in or even assaulted physically in the public places bathrooms while more than 50% reported physical health injuries. In the year 2016, the number of transgender people has been misjudged, miss-gendered and harassed in public bathrooms when going to bathrooms in public facilities (Herman, 2013). Afterward, several individuals are miss-gendered and got harassed in 2017 in Trans Pool Party counting police sergeants. In brief, the existence of gender-neutral bathrooms has become a problem in some sense.
The concept of gender-neutral bathrooms at public place or facilities has been found an efficient and highly convenient for most of the people. Based on the finding of research of the National Institute of justice of the US, more than 60 percent sexual assaults and harassment are caused because of gendered bathrooms in public. A study shows that unisex or gender neutral bathrooms at public facilities make life much easier for all of the families. Gendered bathrooms do not work with traditional or non-traditional families in attendance. Beyond that, gendered bathrooms at public place create worries for parents whose children (sons and daughters) go to educational institutions and public places. On a similar way, based on the replies of the public from 17 different cities, gendered bathrooms at public facilities are not found publically safe in many terms (Danielleeng, 2017). Additionally, neutral gender bathrooms at public places usually shorter waiting time for people especially females. Hence, the concept of gender-neutral bathrooms in public places/facilities cannot be found a negative step all the time.
The opposing of the argument is that gender-neutral bathrooms at public facilities are found comfortable and convenient for most of the people especially. According to the research findings of Women Rights & Place UK, women have even less than 50 percent of permission of gender-neutral bathrooms and toilets in the public places while men owe even all of the rights and legal requirements which are favored in men’s right (Herman, 2013). In another way, in bathrooms at public facilities, men always have more area and place than the females which is considered as extreme inequality by females because females always have more reasons to go to the bathroom. In the US (not the entire country), around 54 percent of the population is comprised of females while this population has been limited in many things in facilities in public places (Danielleeng, 2017). Beyond discussed, the major opposing side of the argument is around 34 percent of people including getting harassed in gender-neutral bathrooms at public facilities.
The paper would debate against the concept that should the gender neutrally bathrooms exist at public facilities. I would like and prefer to state that gender-neutral bathrooms at public places or public facilities are only to facilitate people in very few ways. Like, it is to facilitate families, shorter waiting timings and/or provide an easier life (Kogan, 2016), but it creates huge problems for the people “especially females” some of which have been described above. What are the major problems women face because of gender-neutral bathrooms at public facilities? Would gender neutral bathrooms be the place for sexual activites? Does the concept of gender-neutral bathrooms at public places compromise women safety? Would there be an increase in sexual harassment cases? I research the topic because this is a controversial topic among the public nowadays. Beyond that, risks of the safety of people at public places especially in bathrooms are increasing extremely rapidly which need efficient solutions, so that is why I am conducting deep research on the issue.
References
Danielleeng, H. (2017). The Lost Argument of the Gender Neutral Bathroom Debate. Teenink.com. Retrieved 11 July 2019, from https://www.teenink.com/hot_topics/pride_prejudice/article/950565/The-Lost-Argument-of-the-Gender-Neutral-Bathroom-Debate/
Herman, J. L. (2013). Gendered restrooms and minority stress: The public regulation of gender and its impact on transgender people's lives. Journal of Public Management & Social Policy, 19(1), 65.
Kogan, T. S. (2016). Public Restrooms and the Distorting of Transgender Identity. NCL Rev., 95, 1205.
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