Newcastle students put sanitary bins in gents for the gender neutral

When I was in my twenties I used to use the men's loos fairly often on a night out at the disco. Queue for the ladies too bloody long. I was bolshy then. Now, I find them a bit insanitary.

Kyanite, I think the ovaries is a reference to the testicles. A male can push his testicles up into the inguinal canal and past the front of the pubic bone so that they sit just above the pubic bone in the abdominal cavity. In that position, they are maybe 10cm away from where ovaries would be if the male was actually female. Shame they produce motile sperm and so can never be ovaries. Nature is the ultimate TERF...

IME most transmen use the ladies toilets anyway unless they are 100% sure they pass.

Not entirely sure who this move will benefit tbh.

@bd67th - Young straight women are rubbish at feminism. We were too busy trying to ingratiate ourselves with the boys.

Yes, some odd men like to find used sanitary towels and put them in their pants!

As a woman I would totally use the men’s toilet if there was a choice of gender neutral and a men’s toilet. I mean surely nobody could complain?

Not spiked, soiled!

Can't say this presents much of a danger to anyone. It's just silly.

What? Very soiled sanitary towels - spiked with what? Are women donating used sanitary towels for these purposes?

We had a conversation about this exact article at work, and a female child-free colleague said all loos should be gender-neutral, so I raised the issue of the huge gaps above and below the cubicle partitions and asked "what if you're having a miscarriage?" She hadn't even thought of miscarriage. I think a lot of young women are cosigning this TRA stuff because they don't want to seem "bigoted" and they don't have the life experience of pregnancy and other female biology stuff to realise the value of female-only spaces.

I agree with the NSU president's point that other clinical waste can be put in the sanpro bins. I think all loos should have a suitable disposal container for clinical waste so that people don't have to flush it and have it end up on a beach.

um... is this second hand use of sanitary items for real? I feel a bit sick.

But I guess it is ecological :)

I can't get over men putting tampons up their bums! Do they know that's not where periods come from. And used ones that must pose a health risk.

I think the best protest when they turn the ladies gender neutral is to use the men's.

I was at Man Met the other week for a conference and the ladies had been turned into gender neutral whilst the men's was left alone. I did a bit of a double take outside and a helpful student said "that's the one women usually use" I wavered a bit but used the gender neutral.

I then was in the lift with the student and her friend and they were discussing it so I joined in a bit as they were saying they felt it was a bit unfair that the gents was left alone and we agreed that they should both be gender neutral if one was going to be. It was only the toilets on that floor and there were proper ladies elsewhere but it does really annoy me especially when you know the history of women having to fight for public toilets in order to access public life!

I found some discussions about anal tampon use...they like the feeling and talk about tucking in their ovaries (I presume that is some reference to their prostrate gland) and it makes them feel feminine. They use lube and water or ice to make it swell. They also use one of those handy apps to tell them when it's their period. Tampax pearls seem to be a favourite. Their main worry is that the string might break but apparently that doesn't happen.

Do they put the tampons up their bums or just in their knickers

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/dirty-protest-over-somerville-college-oxfords-genderneutral-loos-bf2jk50lc

found it

Nicked herfemeless's wonderful comment and posted it - plagiarism is cool.

With the link

men vandalised the toilets when this was previously done didn't they?

I'm sure our second hand tampon and towel wearers will be over the moon at this news.

I'd just about managed to block that thought from my mind. Thanks for putting it in there again.

Anyway, this is really exciting positive news. Trans activists have been telling us that the men's loo's are unsafe for trans people. That TIMs especially are at risk of violent attack by the thugs who lurk in the men's toilets waiting to beat up people who don't dress according to gender stereotype. Surely this goes to show that they're actually perfectly safe? If obviously female 'non-binary' people can walk in to the men's loo's and be safe, than TIMs can!