The kind of lock I’m talking about is the button inside the door handle that you push in from inside the restroom. Many public restrooms already have doors that lock this way. For instance Firehouse Subs Womens restroom is one big room with the door locking from the inside.
Locking from inside is fine if a rescue worker can enter from above or below the stall, but you are going to need some kind of security sensor that goes off if a breakable barrier is set in place. Of course, vandals might have loads of fun with that kind of thing.
All needless expense regardless if we tell the freaks to behave themselves. Women don’t mind wearing mens’ clothes. Wardrobe confusion is clearly a mental disorder.
Here’s another problem — women aren’t safe at the sink either.
It’s not just the bathroom stalls.
They need to be cloistered completely from predators-in-drag. They need their own paper towel dispenser and their own exit into the public.
A predator can drag a woman into a stall and then lock it from inside.