I think, instead of having men's and women's facilities, there should be public and private facilities. In the past, I think the male / female division of facilities was designed for modesty, assuming gender was totally binary, either male or female. It was also assuming that homosexuality did not exist. Public restrooms were also designed for efficiency in construction and maintenance.
Society has learned a lot since the early days. Public and private makes more sense for various facilities such as spas, saunas and restrooms. Some folks do like to socialize, especially in spas and saunas, so public makes sense in some cases.
Places designed for privacy have individual little rooms or floor to ceiling stalls while hand washing areas can remain public.
Old style restroom doors in a funky little restaurant I ate at during a bike tour. Trowback to another era.
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