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Is this legal?

61 replies

Pinkpanther473 · 10/05/2019 07:30

Long time lurker
I went to a training course yesterday and the toilets were gender neutral (if right word)
It looked like the male and female signs had just been taken off.
It was two sets of two cubicles and a shared basin area. Cubicles were fairly high walls but with a gap at the top and bottom and the shared space was quite tiny.

I went in one and there was a man there who also looked disoriented and I jumped which was embarrassing. He left saying he was looking for a cleaning cupboard (random) and I used the toilet looking at one sign telling me to check my breasts for breast cancer signs and another sign next to me encouraging me to check my testicles with helpful pictures of hands holding walnuts.

Anyway I’m going to the course again today and I’m not keen on the toilets being unisex. I have some past experiences that might be making me feel more than usually nervous, also maybe I’m not used to this.

I thought that toilets could still be separate although you had to accept people to use it who identify as feminine or masculine?

Isn’t it still the law to have separate spaces to use the toilet?

OP posts:
lucasthecat · 10/05/2019 08:19

KooMoo - I leave all my cash on the table at home, sometimes walk round naked and ovcasionaly if we’re feeling adventurous have sex in the kitchen - from your logic - I should be fine doing all those things at work- is that right

THOUGHT NOT

Heshotmedown · 10/05/2019 08:16

Do have multiple toilets in your bathroom at home KooMoo? that strangers of both sexes use at the same time as you go?

JellyFromTheBlock · 10/05/2019 08:16

When I was a teenager I was sexually assaulted in a public toilet. So no I wouldn't like to use a gender neutral toilet, and I wouldn't let my teenage daughter use one.

eurochick · 10/05/2019 08:16

There are good reasons for single sex toilets and I don't like unisex ones, but I don't believe it is illegal.

OvertheInfluence · 10/05/2019 08:15

Also, I don't have a lock on my bedroom door at home so by KooMoo's thinking all hotel rooms should be open entry too Hmm

Babdoc · 10/05/2019 08:14

KooMoo, your point is irrelevant, since OP doesn’t share her home with thousands of random strangers, any one of which could be a violent male sex attacker.
There are good reasons for single sex toilets - which is why the UN campaigns for them across the third world. We don’t want women’s rights to safety, privacy and dignity to go backwards in the west either.

HappyPunky · 10/05/2019 08:14

Koomoo do you allow strangers in your house to use the toilet?!

I'd be uncomfortable too OP and it makes sense to use the one with the Breast cancer sign.

The equality act allows single sex facilities and stonewall are campaigning to change this and are telling organisations incorrect guidance.

terryleather · 10/05/2019 08:13

Do you invite random strange men to use your toilet at home Koo?

Thought not.

EL2019 · 10/05/2019 08:12

Do you have a bathroom with several semi-open cubicals at home that people could look over the top or underneath Koomoo and is your bathroom open to anyone who wants to walk in off the street?

Weird.

KooMoo · 10/05/2019 08:10

To be politically correct ... Or any other gender.

KooMoo · 10/05/2019 08:09

Do you have seperate loos in your home? One for men, one for women?

Thought not.