Are Single-Sex Bathrooms Necessary?
Jennifer Weiler, a freshman at Green Mountain College in Vermont, has sued the Vermont Department of Public Safety because Green Mountain offers co-ed bathrooms in her residence hall. Weiler contends that public buildings, including residence halls, are required by state law to offer bathrooms for men and women, and thus the state is remiss in policing its own policies. While the co-ed bathroom has private shower and toilet stalls Weiler says that men would often disrobe in the middle of the room. After she complained, the university designated one bathroom as female-only, but men kept using it anyway.
The suit echoes other bathroom issues nationwide, as students dispute if co-ed bathrooms are acceptable, if transgender students need their own washrooms, and so on. Our very own Communications Director, James Baumann, is quoted.
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Sounds like Jennifer is smarter than the people running this department. Of course you need to provide single gender bathrooms for people; not just in residence halls but any public area such as a store, at sporting events, etc. What were they thinking? Answer: they weren’t.