Do you feel nervous or uneasy using unisex loos?

If they are properly designed, so for example with fairly open hand washing spaces and all individual cubicles, then no I don't feel uncomfortable. I prefer single sex but I can work with unisex.

I'm still a bit flabbergasted over recently going to use some loos that were portakabin type ones labelled as "all gender" for both portakabins. Anyway I had my DD (8) with me, she walked in, looked really puzzled and ran back out. Turns out she'd walked in on some guy using a urinal, because they were not, in fact, properly set up unisex loos, but standard male/female portakabin loos that someone had decided to make "inclusive" by labelling everything as all gender. Gotta protect the rights of grown adults to use their preferred toilet over the right of little girls to not unwittingly walk into a massively inappropriate space apparently.

I feel stressed in any small space, like a toilet cubicle, that a man could force his way into between me and the door. That happened to me (not in a toilet) as a child.
I’m fine in women’s loos and changing rooms as long as I know there are no men.
When I first noticed men trespassing in women’s toilets a few years back, it stopped me using loos in pubs, cafes etc for a while. Then I thought Go to hell, I’m big enough to do a man some harm if he tried it now.

I've never had any problems with unisex loos except for at work 20 years ago when some men used to do stinky hangover poos in there on a Friday.

I quite like them generally as they tend to be designed with sink and drier in the cubicle

You must be mistaken. On Mumsnet all men are itching to expose themselves in unisex loos. It is not possible that a man night noit want to share a loo with a woman any more than a woman whats to share it with a man.

It's not based on any logical position but I hate them and avoid them as far as possible. But I'm a bit funny about public loos in general.

Why would it be any more unhygienic than single sex loos?

We went to a venue in Manchester with ‘gender neural’ toilets. In practice this meant a large space with sinks down the middle of the space with urinals to the left and cubicles to the right. The urinals were through an arch way but clearly visible to all. It was a bit disconcerting and not pleasant made worse by some idiot bloke who thought it was funny to simulate masturbating (he was fully clothed) towards all the women coming in and out of the toilets. Our one experience of gender neutral toilets really didn’t change our minds that they are a bad idea.

I encountered this too (Summerhall?) and it pissed me off. Gender ideology is sexist because changes such as this in the name of inclusion have a disproportionately negative effect on women while barely affecting men. Architects used to know that you need more toilet provision for women if you want to avoid Qs. The lost knowledge...!

Not a fan. A restaurant I liked brought them in. Seats left up, smelly, piss all over the place. Haven’t been back. I honestly think some of them piss everywhere on purpose. In a former workplace you could smell the men’s toilets from the corridor even though they were regularly cleaned. Just too disgusting for me.

Yes they do. The cafe has to provide either single sex facilities or a separate enclosed unisex room. Sometimes there's a separate single staff toilet. I doubt that anyone is going to complain because they need the job but the cafe would fail a Health and Safety inspection.

No...no I really don't FFS

It seems it's not legal in new buildings but is acceptable in older buildings. I've only come across this set up once, in a cafe in Derbyshire. It felt weird and awkward.

Agree it's not legal if it's for workers though. Not sure how this affects the cafe workers. Do they need to have single sex facilities for their use?

Perhaps for different reasons though. I know DH doesn’t like them at all. He moans about the lack of urinals and cubicle floors covered in soggy loo paper. He is convinced that’s a woman thing.

Unless they are in the cubicle with me i figure they have more important things going on in their lives to worry about me

Men or women i am not the centre of their toilet time

I think this is a really good point and it’s interesting to know that some men are not comfortable with unisex facilities either.

As a man i hate them. They are almost on every French campsite, so ive ended up in the uncomfortable position of cleaning my teeth next to a Swiss woman who lives in Sussex (not the Swiss bit or Sussex, just the complete wrogness of it)
I worry that women will fill uncomfortable using the loo/showering next to me that I may be peeping under the door/divide.

Perfectly happy with the sort that are self enclosed cubicles with a sink inside.

One’s gut instinct should never be ignored.
gut instinct about men in general?

I am not deliberately misunderstanding when I point out that there are MALE in female loos. I rarely see female cleaners.

No. You’re deliberately misunderstanding. She’s not uncomfortable with strangers. She’s uncomfortable with men she doesn’t know in a confined intimate space. As she should be. One’s gut instinct should never be ignored.

Not a fan. The real reason is probably because it represents a cost saving and potentially some extra square footage to make money out of?

I'm a bit shocked at this thread tbh. So many workplaces and service providers just openly breaking the law. And so many people who don't know what the law is.

I had no idea it was this bad.

If you are in the UK what you are describing is illegal.

Especially if it's at your workplace where having single sex toilet or changing facilities is mandated by law.
Unisex loos in the UK HAVE to be fully contained units including a wash hand basin. Loos with a shared washing area should always be only single sex. Where is this? And can you complain?
And I agree, sounds horrible. I'd hate it.

They not queuing for the Ladies in the National Portrait Gallery because there aren’t any. The one in the Pret round the corner is unisex too.

It's not pointless but it takes time. We've had a couple of decades of prioritising supposedly "inclusive" designs over what people actually need and in some places it's going to take time to implement a better mix of women's, men's, and individual unisex facilities.

For some places it will just be a matter of changing labels (like the venue near me I described upthread) but for others it will take longer.