Gender-neutral bathrooms are good for everyone

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Why gender neutral? The United States has a growing epidemic of gender revision. This seems like it shouldn’t be problem, but these people are being abused in bathrooms around the U.S. Feeling very uncomfortable, many transgender Americans want a bathroom that is for them. But there is no need for a bathroom for them when we can just have a bathroom for everyone. One set of unisex bathrooms could solve this abuse and discomfort in the bathrooms for transgender people.

To start off, these bathrooms could make the atmosphere in the bathroom safer for everyone. This would be because each bathroom would be like a personal family bathroom. So people wouldn’t have to worry about being judged and abused. According to a post in the Huffington Post Queer Voices blog, transgender Americans “often are not just yelled at and told to leave. They often face physical violence. Sometimes they even face death.”

Another point is the fact that if bathrooms are gender-neutral it could be beneficial to parents that have opposite gender children. It is a parent’s fear that they have to send their young child in the bathroom by themselves. They don’t know what could happen to them. They even might expect the worse, like when the aunt of a nine year old boy in Oceanside, California walked into the bathroom after her nephew didn’t come back out. She was a witness to a terrible sight: her nephew bleeding out with his throat slit by a 20-year old later convicted and charged with murder.

Finally gender bathrooms could end a problem that runs in bathrooms for everyone. This problem is defined as one word, intimidation. When you go to the bathroom you want to go and have privacy and not worry about that stuff. But everyone knows that you can’t avoid those kinds of things unless you have the privacy that a gender-neutral, family style bathroom, can offer.
In conclusion, we should have gender-neutral bathrooms. These bathrooms will be safer for everyone, easier on parents with opposite gender children, and they will decrease things like intimidation in the bathroom atmosphere. Therefore gender-neutral bathrooms can solve simple problems that we are struggling with today.