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Just fucking WOW. I guess we should check their assholes next.
https://www.wgal.com/article/parents-upset-over-window-installation-south-westerns-gender-inclusive-bathrooms/62492963
Ok, I'll explain that a little better: the place where you take a shit is a private space. The place where you wash your hands is a public space.
In a normal restroom, it is permissible to be partially undressed outside of the stalls, but within the hand washing area of the restroom, as that can be considered a changing area, like a locker room.
With the addition of the window, there is no longer a place that can be considered a "changing area" outside the stalls. If they built proper walls and used proper doors for the "stalls", they just made some private restrooms next to some public sinks.
The discourse around this is very confusing, especially as a non American who has never been in an American school bathroom.
What you're describing sounds like a normal public toilet set up in my country
There's a hallway or doorway into an open space with mirrors sinks and hand dryers, sometimes that hallway has a door to it, but often it's just an open door frame. Sometimes they'll put a 90 degree turn in the hall to obscure looking straight in, but not always.
Behind the sinks are private stalls. At more expensive locations they'll have semiambulant stalls, some will even have their own sink inside the stall so that the full access toilet and wash room can be available to those who can't ambulate.
(full access toilets and wash rooms are entirely seperate from the sink and stalls)
The sink area is often still segregated by gender at older establishments, but anyone walking past could glimpse in and see /shock fully dressed people washing their hands!
From the school restrooms I've seen depicted in various British TV shows, there isn't much physical difference. The only practical difference is that males, females, and various other genders might be washing hands in the same room at the same time. Now with a window to remind everyone that the sink area is a public space, and isn't to be used as a changing area.
This is to alienate or ostracize a certain group. They don't care that someone might change in that area. They want it to fail.
Since you only have a reference from tv about other places outside the US, Germany has unisex bathrooms. It is a place to shit and piss. If you want to change, knock yourself out. However in the US we have tiny doors that you can easily see around. Privacy is not high on our list.
The Republicans do, indeed, want to get rid of these bathrooms, and revert them to boys rooms. If they controlled the board, that is exactly what they would have. The fact that they have 5 different types of restrooms tells me the Republicans aren't the ones making the decisions; the board is accommodating the students.
The Republicans are using a law prohibiting coed changing rooms. They are claiming the area outside the stalls qualifies as a changing area, and they have precedence to support that designation. If it is a changing area, the gender inclusive restroom violates the law. They do, indeed, want it to fail, which it will do if the issue goes to court while that law is in place.
Unless they can prove that the area outside the stalls is not a changing area. Changing areas don't have public-facing windows. It can't be an illegal, coed changing area if it has a public-facing window.
That is exactly what they made here. Each stall is now considered a unisex bathroom, and the hand washing area is no longer a "changing area".
Does this particular room use typical semi-private partitions, or have they switched to some sort of wall or full partition that offers actual privacy? The photo shows only the window; it does not provide a good view of the stalls.
You are missing the major point. They are only doing it to one group (singling out). Imagine if they cut a window into the female's bathroom and determined the outside was not considered private? How about they cut windows to all the bathrooms and make all as just bathrooms. Like you do at your house, unless you have a men's and women's bathrooms.
Not all communal restrooms have stall partitions suitable for that plan. Nor do they need them if the area outside the stalls is a changing area. The school does need to provide changing areas. Eliminating one unnecessarily doesn't make sense.