Coed dorms are not that novel
Stanford has had coed dorms for over 50 years and back in the late 70s experimented with a house called Androgyny house with a theme of gender roles. They had randomly assigned roommates without regard to gender (coed rooms). Another house, also part of the official housing system, had coed bathrooms. The user could put a sign on the door that indicated their own gender and whether they cared who else used the bathroom while they were showering. Even the dorm I lived in usually let people use the nearest bathroom, rather than the gendered bathroom, after a certain hour. One year, a girl that lived on a coed floor discovered that the men's shower was a gang shower while the women had shower stalls. So, one morning she decided to try out the men's shower, much to the surprise of the men who were using the shower at that moment.
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