AIBU to think mixed-sex changing facilities should be limited?

It's shocking OP. I knew there were concerns about hidden cameras and photos being taken under/over stalls but this is astonishing. And the fact that there were none when facilities were separated by sex shows that women's safety has been completely disregarded.

AIBU to think mixed-sex changing facilities should be limited?

I think the word you're looking for is "banned", not "limited".

I use mixed facilities and have done for many years . Don’t have a problem with them at all.

some of those sexual assaults could be between people that were there together ? Too easy to jump to conclusions without more info tbh.

Those of us who were against them from the start would just get patronised with "shock, horror, a man might see us washing our hands". Men are a danger to women and children, in a way female sex offenders aren't. We shouldn't be forced into locked spaces, alone, with them. It's ironic that most public toilets are linked with toilet charities in developing countries because women who don't have brick toilets are at risk of rape.

I voted YABU because i think there should always be the option of a family changing area as well - with all cubicles and with sight lines from the corridor in the walkways of it.

Mainly for the sake of parents taking their opposite sex kids in to change, but if there were sight lines through the bits that weren’t cubicles anyone could use those cubicles who felt uncomfortable elsewhere.

It’s the same with any universal type toilets - there just needs to be no “semi private” area where people are mingling behind a closed door.

I have always liked these facilities, when going swimming with boys who are too old for the ladies, but too hapless to get changed on their own without losing their goggles and dropping their clothes in a puddle (~5 - 9).

Those are shocking statistics though, I've changed my mind.

So shocked that you replied twice!

Anyway those statistics speak for themselves and I should be enough to precipitate a rethink.

They probably don't tell the whole story and I think @Fidgety31 was trying to point that out. Were the offenders young, old, non binary, non-British etc?
Maybe it would be helpful to know, but the most expedient corrective action would be to ban compulsory mixed changing rooms.

In my local swimming baths many of the men walk around the communal area including the mixed showers naked even when they know kids and women are around which is why I no longer go swimming and I know most women and girls have quit too.
Everytime the local council send out surveys asking why women and girls aren't using the facilities anymore they are told its because of the predatory behaviour of men and the lack of single sex facilities. The response from the council a notice saying keep your clothes on in the communal areas but no staff enforce it, no men are banned and the police wont even bother turning up.
So now its basically a male only swimming baths which is full of predatory men.

What has nonbinary got to do with anything?
Nonbinary is made up nonsense that is not recognised in law and everybody has a sex so can and should use the facilities for their sex.
The changing villages have been known to be dangerous for women and children for decades but are cheaper to run than single sex facilities with a few mixed sex family cubicles and are the preferred design of swim England and swim Scotland so all we get is mixed sex facilities and the predation of women and girls.
What we need is to go back to single sex facilities with a few family facilities and ban and report to the police any male who enters the female areas and/or walks around the communal areas naked

YANBU

There is no need for mixed sex facilities.

Family changing rooms are acceptable.

99% of people will be no hassle in mixed changing facilities, but you do get some creeps and we have had a rapid influx of men from inferior cultures whose conduct is not suitable for such an environment.

Women's space, safety and privacy are all non-negotiables.

Transvestites with delusions of grandeur (of "being a woman") should not be entertained either.

I’ve not been to our local pool for a while - the showers were few in number and completely open so only suitable for rinsing off with swimming costumes on (never saw anyone naked) and the changing was three rows of cubicles - female, mixed sex and male, with group/accessible rooms around the edge, and single sex loos. It was ok, not perfect but at least a reasonable attempt to provide for both sexes and mixed sex parent and children.

Purely single sex doesn’t work well for parents with opposite sex children at some ages/stages.

How do you know there isn't covert footage of you naked, mid-change in what you thought was a private cubicle? Or on the toilet there? That is a whole genre in itself and demand is high for new material.

Of course, if you are "what I don't know won't hurt me", then no big deal. But I suspect you'd probably rather not be included in that cache of wankbank material if you had the choice.

Where I am (South East) the local public/not for profit leisure centres all have mixed sex cubile changing. Its only the private gyms/spas etc that have old fashioned single sex locker rooms where some people just strip off randomly in full view of others. So there is no possibility to do a like for like comparison of single sex vs mixed as the demographics and just overall numbers using the facilities are dramatically different.

Personally I think the mixed sex thing is misleading - its more about what is the environment like - are there staff around, when did these assaults happen? Our local leisure centre genuinely doesn't have any quiet times, its always packed out even during the day. Things could be better as the cubicles could have higher/lower doors and frames, but other than that it feels a much more comfortable environment and much safer than the local places with single sex changing with zero privacy.

Why do you assume covert cameras are only placed by men or only in mixed facilities? Many leisure centres including the more 'luxury' ones have more male staff than female, including those cleaning changing rooms, doing maintenance etc.

Our local council pool has a changing village. It’s also the pool used by the local secondary school. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve had to shout at teenage boys from looking under or climbing over the cubicles. NOT to sexually harass but to prank their friends. I always make the point that they might get the wrong cubicle and could end up in serious trouble. A minor good thing is the school takes the pupils to the pool in single sex classes.