"Wrong bathroom" sign in university toilet

I have got horrible visions of drunken groups of blokes staggering in and pissing in the sink.

Lots of men seem to think that doing gross / disgusting things to women or the things that "belong" to them is incredibly funny.

I would definitely have to nip into the gents to check that they have the same signs above the urinals.....

Anglia Ruskin isn't a Scottish University, I appreciate that isn't the issue but just wanted to point that out.

I really will put it in the bin if I see a sign like that

1. Gents have urinals I am sure many men would be really uncomfortable with a woman / women coming in when they are there with their cocks out, it is unfair to think that they should just act like it's all AOK
2. Take the sign and put it on the gents
3. The point about signs for trafficked women - god - I' hadn't thought of that. The men can escort them everywhere now

The men “taking advantage” will probably not be transwomen but common or garden men.

If someone's transgender and they literally change their gender then yeah i guess they should go to the toilets that match their sex. But I'd rather not walk into the toilets and see a fully grown man claiming to be a women on the inside but doesn't seem to be doing much about it I'm going to feel uncomfortable. I'm not saying every transgender person is like that but some people COULD take advantage of this situation

And to add insult to injury, the DO NOTs are written on the pink paper.

We have to start using the male toilets (en masse, for safety).

“if someone is minding their own business then you mind yours”

Biological men using womens loos are not “minding their own business”. They’re using previously single sex spaces. We have single sex spaces for good cultural and girls and womens safety reasons. unisex loos and men being in womens loos make it easier for (a minority of) men who wish to commit sexual crimes, eg voyeuristic, assault, to enter and do so.

FFS
"Women know your place" budge up the men are taking it...

I read this as I can say a man in the ladies toilet clearly thinks IM in the wrong toilet and is making me feel uncomfortable.

Or, I'd just stick the sign in the bin.

And sorry, I see a dude in the ladies toilets, I'll stare my arse off. And make fucking sure he feels uncomfortable.

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Windchimes

So do you see no good reason for the segregation of loos by the sex of those who use them?

Wind, Then why not just make the toilets officially mixed sex? Why the attention seeking notice

I've just got back from somewhere where most toilets were unixex/mixed sex. They were filthy and unsafe.

I stick by the requirement for toilets segregated by sex.

but these toilets too will not have the expectation to be male-free anymore

Well quite. We'll have to assume that every obviously male-bodied person, having adopted no sign of any 'femininity', is at the very beginning of an arduous and traumatising transition which they're gathering up courage to properly launch into, so we couldn't possibly say anything, especially since any male-bodied person who comes into the loo will only have the best of intentions, because exclusively TIM will come into the women's loo, and TIM are universally non-aggressive and lovely and commit crime at the same rate as women, because crime is motivated by whether you have a lady brain or not.
I mean, I'm curious, if the only reason you still present as completely male is because you're worried about the social fallout your transition will provoke, then surely you'd be more than a bit hesitant about using women's loos, but whatever...

I would deface that.

Wind, Then why not just make the toilets officially mixed sex? Why the attention seeking notice?

Oh, when these students enter the real world....

Maybe it should also say 'lie back and think of Scotland'?

I think people are overreacting to this sign. It simply means if someone is minding their own business then you mind yours. It doesnt mean you need to tolerate assault!! If someone of any gender is being inappropriate or aggressive with you then you should report them/tell them to stop regardless of where you are.
This sign is simply regarding people who are just in the bathroom.
Not people showing you their genitals or getting up in your space!! Of course you react to that!!
What this sign is asking people not to react to is simply people going in and out of a toilet. Which I think is fair enough honestly.

Where is this notice? I usually have sharpies in my bag anyway (work and child related).

I don't give a shit! I will be challenging, in a non confrontational calm way of course........

If you don’t think someone should be in there... stfu? So no one can be challenged and the assumption is that they are genuine and ‘safe’.

Is the same notice in the men’s loos too? Or the disabled toilets? Or the showers?

Utter nonsense.

What would I do, as a copper, when I was sent to a shopping centre toilets where a male was perving on women?
What if he told me he identified as a woman?
What if I told you he was leaning over/under cubicle doors?
What if there was footage on his phone of it?

Would that make things different?

So are there any circumstances where a female is allowed to challenge anyone, but in this instance specifically a male bodied person?
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