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All gender toilets

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MissBax · 12/05/2017 18:43

Bit of a lurker on the fem chat usually but just wondered people's opinions on this.
At my university today I noticed they'd changed the women's toilets on one floor to "all gender" toilets. At first I thought ah ok that's not a big deal, there must be someone in the uni who is trans and that's why they've done it. But then when I came out of the toilets I noticed that the men's toilet and disabled toilet hadn't been changed. I can't understand the rationale of changing only the women's toilets? Or am I being overly sensitive? I'm not sure how I feel about it...

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BigDeskBob · 12/05/2017 18:59

Its a real head scratcher isn't it?

Thelilywhite · 12/05/2017 18:58

No you are not being oversensitive.This has been discussed on here a lot - probably far more eloquently that I can do but it makes me really angry.Whats happened to
our right to privacy to do the things the female sex must do in our own loos?Not to mention women who have been assaulted by men or must be segregated from them on religious grounds. Imo its jyst ticking pc boxes without any thought given to born womens rights.

MissBax · 12/05/2017 18:58

I did wonder whether it was something to do with urinals. As if a man was stood at one and a trans person walked in they would be exposed? But it still seemed odd to me. I think I will ask though, it does seem strange that the women's facilities are the only ones affected.
hazey sorry you're right, the disabled ones would be anyway.

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Datun · 12/05/2017 18:55

I would ask why are they discriminating against women on the basis of their sex.

VestalVirgin · 12/05/2017 18:53

I guess because women's tend to have cubicles only whereas men's have urinals? Just from a completely practical point of view.

So what? Transmen might want to use the urinals.

Clearly, women's privacy is not a consideration. Often, cubicle walls don't go all the way to the floor and ceiling, and there's been plenty reports of men filming under cubicle doors in unisex facilities.

So why should men be entitled to being protected from female gazes while they have their dicks in hand?

AssassinatedBeauty · 12/05/2017 18:51

I think I'd raise it with the relevant people along the lines of why do men get more facilities than women, alongside these free for all toilets. Why do men need their own separate toilets especially for them, when the same isn't provided for women?

VestalVirgin · 12/05/2017 18:49

This has been discussed with regard to a public toilet, where also only the women's toilet was changed. Many people here are very angry about it.

It is really revealing, isn't it?

Women's right to privacy is under attack.

It is not about trans people, it is about giving males access to women's spaces. If it were about trans people, they'd change the men's toilet, too.

That said, if you see a man in there, do ask him to leave and complain if he doesn't.
After all, the sign says "all genders", not "all sexes". Gender is a social construct. And there's no problem with female people who identify as trans, non-binary or dinosaur using the women's toilets

hazeydays14 · 12/05/2017 18:46

I guess because women's tend to have cubicles only whereas men's have urinals? Just from a completely practical point of view.
The disabled toilet would be all gender anyway surely unless they have one each for men and women.

MrsDustyBusty · 12/05/2017 18:44

Would you ask why only the women's toilets are opened in this way? I think I'd be interested to know why is always only the women's facilities that have to be a free for all.

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