Originally Posted by
WillR
I actually think there is not much justification for gender segregated toilet facilites; given that cubicles have closing doors, why should anyone care? The urinal section could have a closing door, and no-one can see anyone elses junk more than currently..
Using the bathroom analogy, male cleaners are commonplace in female public bathrooms in Germany and France. (Why pay two people to do the job when one can do it?) It's common for me to enter the bathroom and have a man greet me. I don't have an issue with it.
But the reaction to males in the female bathroom (even those underage) causes quite the uproar on a leisure travel site I used to read. I believe that cultural conventions vary, as do preferences between males and females.
I am not expressing myself well, but what I am trying to point out is that what doesn't bother me as a female may well bother another female from a different background.