They have those little white stick figures on the door.  You don't fuck with those stick figures.

they go to the bathroom of the sx on their birth certificate- 

So you just want to make it easier for peeping toms, pedo s and sexual predators, among others to enter whatever bathroom they feel like that day

at least (until recently)  if a man walked into a womens room it would draw attention and the proprietor of the bldging, or school or hospital etc cpould legally remove the guy if needed and both men and women would AT least make others aware there was a aman n the ladies room or more likley see that he exits it ASAP-   now  it s jut going to be "open door"  

additonally, when i am w my Son i can comfortably enter the mens room w him or at any point if i feel needed-  but w  my daughter,  i do not feel like it is "ok" to enter w her -    so yes i am much more comfortable knowing if there is another person in there that it is a lady

your example is like telling a large retail store to not wrry about loss prevention measures because people shop lift anyway-  

If a man was seen walking into an occupied womens room it would bring attention in most communittties quickly-  most women would be none too happy and would let the guy know-  if a man was seen repeatly walking into a womens room in most communitties someone would call the police-  that is if various men in the vicinty did not throw him out phyically 1st-   

in a public place those signs are pretty meaningful- otherwise 99.9% of the time men would not enter the mens room and woemn the womens room as they have been doing for many years

Both my University and now my workplace have genderless toilets, and have had them for many years now. (Hell, when I visited my Uni on a science camp back in 2005 they already had them)

I have never heard any complaints, nor of any lawsuits.

I just think of Southpark when Cartman pretended to "identify" as a woman so he could take massive shits in the girls bathroom.

South Park will always remind us there are people that will abuse the system.

In your situations, the signs aren't doing shit.  People are being vigilant.  And people can still be vigilant.  If there are people around who are as concerned as you say, then a person shouldn't be getting away with anything sketchy regardless of what target says. 

Thing about that is, if anything, the laws in NC made such a scenario so much easier for actual perpetrators now. These laws force people who look, sound, walk and probably use the loo like men use the womens toilet (and the opposite for transgender women in the mens one). Perpetrators don't go through great lenghs to commit their crimes, they commit them where and when it's convinient. And it's much more convinient to pretend you're a transgender man as a male than it is to pretend you're a transgender women.

Genderless or unisex bathrooms on the other hand solve that issue because, since everyone can go there, who's to stop you and an couple security guys to go in as well and check on your wife and her would be rapist? That's right, no one.

And as others have pointed out a stick figure sign is not usually deter a rapist. A restroom full of suspicious women might, but since seeing perfectly male looking guys in the womens restroom should be an expected occurence now, it makes it easier for the hypothetical perpetrators.

I'm sorry if I sound neglegent on the issue, but as someone who has used mens, womens, unisex and even group restrooms I don't see the issue. (and yes, the group one was wierd, but you get used to it)

I believe that Target is going about this the right way. They made the decision themselves. I think Ron Paul said it best. The government shouldn't have the right to tell owners of private property who can and can't use their bathrooms. It should be up to the businesses to decide for themselves how their bathrooms should be managed. If the consumer is dissatisfied with the bathroom situation, they can choose to take their business elsewhere. If enough people dislike the bathrooms at a particular place and decide not to shop there, then the business will change its policy.

So in short, let the market decide and let the consumer decide.

Finally. The search for the ever always clean never reeking toilet is over.

i just find it amusing that many of the same people pushing the idea of a rape culture are pushing for genderless bathrooms