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<p>Retrofitting in the sense that you’d have to add additional bathrooms to every hall or floor in order to have the option of two single sex bathrooms. In no other place before or after college, with the possible exception of some cutting edge clubs, are people expected to use group, coed bathrooms. </p>
<p>My kids were not put in the position to have to be uncomfortable. On S’s floor none of the young women voted in favor of coed. It wasn’t even close.</p>
<p>Yep, what Sue22 said. Essentially what my dorm was voting on was allowing males to use the second floor bathroom in one section. The first floor bathroom was by default a male only bathroom (only men lived on the first floor). If anyone, male or female, felt uncomfortable the second floor guys would have had to use the first floor bathroom. Actually it may have been just the girls because the guys could have always used the first floor bathroom. One guy on the second floor did use the first floor bathroom for maybe a week and then realized that girls couldn’t and wouldn’t walk in on him. He started using the second floor bathroom.</p>
<p>As for retrofitting old dorms, I believe that was done in a few cases and they did install a second bathroom. So if you had asked for these dorms specifically, you would avoid coed bathrooms. Like I said, there were many dorm options.</p>
<p>I don’t think one can speak in absolutes, that every school has single sex bathrooms available if desired or if one person objects in a vote. If it’s really important to a student, then it’s worth investigating and perhaps eliminating schools from the list. Just because it’s not an issue to most people doesn’t mean it’s not a valid issue for some people.</p>