Single sex toilets for men, and mixed sex.....nothing for women only.

@BatShite - Our local leisure centre changed the womens loos to 'all genders' and left the mens as they were.

Surely, if you're going to do this, the more sensible option would be to convert men's to all gender as men's cater for men and women, having both urinals and cubicles.

At work they have converted wheelchair accessible toilets to all-gender and left men's and women's alone.

He sounds like an arse but I'm not sure I agree with posting somebody's name and workplace on a public forum frequented by millions of users.

''Potty parity is equal or equitable provision of public toilet facilities for females and males within a public space.''
''Current laws in the United Kingdom require a 1:1 female–male ratio of restroom space in public buildings. The International Building Code requires a 2:1 female–male ratio of toilets.''
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potty_parity

Where there is no regulation to provide toilets, there is no incentive to do so because they cost money to install and run.
www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/women-men-bathroom-lines-wait/580993/

This is why women need to make a fuss about toilets. If we don't, we lose the ability to participate in public life.

I went to Arundel a couple of days ago and the public loos at the big car park are mixed sex like that. There are about 5 in a line and I think one disabled. I went in at 2pm and about 7pm. Big cubicles with sink inside. There was a young woman (age around 20) I was watching at my 7pm trip and she opened each door looked in, smelt, and looking disgusted moved on. Her dad came out of one and she shook her head and walked off with him. I unfortunately don’t have a strong bladder so had no choice. At 2pm they were stinky and yucky enough, at 7pm just absolutely gross. Piss on the seat, on the floor. I laid toilet paper where I could and tiptoed on that. Just foul.
I hate mixed public toilets like that. So glad I didn’t have DD age 8 with me.

@centrifugal ah yes those are the ones! I'll send an email

@centrifugal are they the ones that look almost like a portacabin? If so, used them recently and had to wait behind a couple of men to do so and then pray they left the toilet in an acceptable state! So the urinal thing didn't speed anything up (if I'm thinking of the same ones)

I'm pregnant at the mo and needing to pee all the time obviously and I get so annoyed having to use mixed toilets. They feel so unclean and I just rush in and out

Oh goodness. Typos!

*tab = at
Imitate = discriminate

In a town near me they changed men’s and women’s to fewer fully enclosed unisex loos. There are now fewer loos and queues tab peak times, when where there weren’t before. Unisex loos of this type actively iminate against women. Even if they are cubicles with shared sinkers they nonetheless discriminate against women on the basis of needs for privacy etc (bloody hands, safety, miscarriage etc etc.). The odd unisex loo in places like cafes is fine, but they should not be the default.

Im in cromer atm. Did you post this on Twitter?

The toilets are fairly large and self contained but too many people use them for changing so there is not enough cubicles.

Annoyingly they closed the large toilets closer to the amusement arcade which are sex segregated.

OP I am massively against these toilets....

but as you didn't go in and see what was there, it's hard to know

if there's a bunch of fully enclosed, including sink and sanitary bins, cubicles, then the urinals are to speed up queues. Complaining about something you've not seen seems a bit odd.

forms.north-norfolk.gov.uk/outreach/contactus.ofml

I'd have been sorely tempted to ask him if I, as a woman, was allowed to use the urinals - if so why are they designated for men, if not why not?

I wonder if he’s against the change and now having to toe the line to pay bills.

They are simply not thinking of women and our specific needs / vulnerabilities at all.

Man as default strikes back.

There are out of hours "unisex" toilets in Old Hunstanton, but I didn't go in to check if they were cubicles or enclosed rooms, I just thought there's no bloody way I'm going in those late in the evening with hardly anyone around. I saw it somewhere else asking there too. Obviously a widespread change along there.

Links don't work!

This means they are all fine to change the ladies to everyone, and leave the mens as mens then, no probs :/

Great.

OP is there baby change in the mixed toilets?

Going to send a complaint for you OP

Fraggling - sorry, it’s the wrong link. The HSE seem to have changed their website and I’m finding it hard to navigate. You can have shared (for both sexes) basins in the same room, outside the toilet cubicles, as long it’s just for hand washing. Workplaces where more extensive washing is required have to provide separate facilities.

Here are the correct links:

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/20/made

and paragraph 3 of the following:

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/21/made

womansplaceuk.org/gender-neutral-toilets-dont-work-for-women-2/

fairplayforwomen.com/equality-act-2010_womens-rights/

These two links might be useful. Have alook at the FPFW link under the "public sector equality duty" section (it's quite a way down the page) . Your council needs to be able to provide an EIA, the criteria for EIA are outlined in the para I mentioned above. I'd start by asking for that. Might require a FOI request.

There's another poster here who is very well versed in the provisions and requirements of the EA 2010, maybe she'll see your thread and have better suggestions.

Get a she-wee and use the urinal!