Unisex
Gender-blind or unisex is the option of either a third choice or no use of sex or gender data in typically binary gender-based services or facilities.
An example of this would be a college offering a gender-blind dormitory in addition to their pre-existing all-male and all-female dorms. In the gender-blind dorm, roommates could be assigned without regard to any persons gender. This allows transgender persons and persons who do not accept gender labels to live in more comfortable settings than may otherwise be impossible in single-sex housing. It is also good for heterosexuals who otherwise couldn't live with their partners while at the university.
The first gender-blind dorm in the United States opened in the fall of 2003 on the campus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Choice of words
Unisex is an older term and some feel it carries the connotation of actually being duo-sex, whereas genderblind goes against most tenets of heteronormativity, by not looking at gender at all.
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