Just sense checking whether this is an issue or not in most people’s minds and it kind of is for me, but I don’t want to make a fuss for nothing.
The local leisure centre is having renovation works to its changing rooms which has halved the space and left only one toilet available - marked for females. Toilets are small with hardly any space to stand unless in a cubicle. The changing rooms are manic, especially after swimming lessons.
The renovations have been going on for a few months now and I’ve noticed each week after my kids lessons that the male cleaner enters the female toilets very regularly. I was waiting outside the cubicle my son was in and observed the male cleaner going in there 3 times in 5mins. Now, I’m not trying to suggest it’s illegitimate reasons as I’m sure the toilets get horrid very quickly with so many people using them and probably very slippery too.
The reasons I feel uncomfortable;
- it’s so tiny that young girls often go in alone, hardly any space to stand outside the cubicles.
- there’s no signage to say a male is in there at anytime. I wouldn’t know if he was in there if I sent my daughter in for example.
- it’s not a unisex toilet - it’s clearly marked for females only.
- As it’s a swimming pool changing room, everyone is in the equivalent of underwear and very exposed. For the average person it means nothing, but a solo man around young girls in costumes alone makes me feel uncomfortable.
AIBU to feel uncomfortable about this and that it’s an unnecessary safeguarding risk? The leisure centre is a big one, why wouldn’t they assign a female cleaner whilst the work is undergoing and the changing rooms are chaos?
Perhaps I’m being over sensitive about it so I’d value your thoughts!