[THECOLLEGEFIX] Northwestern University will offer "gender-open restrooms" to its students this fall."We are trying to be responsive to the needs of all of our students and to be inclusive," campus front man Bob Rowley said in an email to The College Fix. "This is becoming a common occurrence on campuses across the U.S."
It must be terrible to be young nowadays. Think of the young man dreamily following the Most Beautiful Girl in the World into the lavatory just so he can occupy the stall next to her! If that's not bad enough, think of the bruises to his illusions of perfection when she grunts passing a hard one, or comes down with SPD (Splattering Projectile Diarrhea).
At Northwestern, the two sex-segregated bathrooms to be changed will simply have their front door placards replaced to reflect the transition — no major renovations are planned. The bathrooms are located on the third floor of the university's main building that serves as the campus hub.
Northwestern joins the estimated 150 campuses across the nation that now offer some sort of gender-open restrooms, also called gender-neutral, unisex, or all-gender bathrooms, according to a tally by the LGTBQ group Stonewall at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
But while advocates convey them as mostly "single-stall, lockable restrooms available to people of all genders," it's clear many are also sex-segregated bathrooms converted to open-gender ones, as is the case at Northwestern.
The concern among some female students who now must share restrooms with anatomically male students is apparently not significant enough to put the brakes on these transitions.
"Tut tut! Modesty is so 1959!"
"We received overwhelmingly positive information, and so we went with it," Devin Moss, the director of Northwestern's LGBTQ Resource Center, told the Daily Northwestern. "We didn't really get any major concerns."