Why are bathrooms in the U.S. segregated by gender/sex?

In fact, laws in the U.S. did not even address the issue of separating public restrooms by sex until the end of the 19th century, when Massachusetts .... read more

Large public restrooms in Europe usually are gender segregated the way they would be in the United States. Smaller restaurants in the United States typically have two single person bathrooms and it is becoming more common at least in large chains like Starbucks that those are becoming unisex. read more

So if the only purpose of having sex-segregated bathrooms is to preserve social order, the best way to have those facilities continue to serve that purpose is to let transgender people use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender. read more

Bathrooms are not segregated, unless you mean by gender. Segregation usually is said when referring to the separation or isolation of a certain race, religion, nationality, sex, or sexual orientation. Given that each bathroom hosts half of the population, the term segregation should not be used in this case. read more