Is gender segregation of toilets necessary?

No. There is a better solution, and Sweden and other Nordic countries implement it. They have a single large room for both sexes, with washbasins and mirrors. Off this room are numerous individual rooms (not stalls, but whole rooms with floor-to-ceiling walls and real doors) containing a toilet and its own small handbasin. read more

But some gender segregation is probably useful in some circumstances. Even if all toilets were unisex, it would probably be useful to have a section of urinals for the men, as they are more efficient if all you are doing is urinating. read more

Sex segregation is the physical, legal, and cultural separation of people according to their biological sex. This is distinct from gender segregation, which is the separation of people according to social constructions of gender (see the difference between sex and gender). In certain circumstances, sex segregation is controversial. read more

We should stop segregating public toilets based on gender. If we were today segregating public toilets based on race, we would immediately know that it was wrong. And many of the concerns expressed today about ending gender segregation, used to be expressed in the past about ending race segregation. read more