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Gender neutral toilets at work

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SmallPug · 10/11/2020 18:30

I know it’s been done to death, but I need to rebut the ridiculous ‘we do it to be inclusive’ email re loos. Our office building - which is an arts institution and we rent an office inside effectively has mixed sex loos. There are ostensibly male and female toilets, but they all have ‘gender neutral’ signage. I wrote a very clear email (using Woman’s place info) outlining the issue of having ‘mixed sex’ toilets and I got a ‘it’s to be inclusive so people can use the toilets they feel most fits their gender identity’. Which basically defeats the point and they might as well be honest. I haven’t seen anything to be concerned about (yet) it’s all very naice etc etc and not like a train station loos - but it is accessible to the public in places, and the point remains that they’re affectively mixed sex. I used ‘sex’ throughout - they used gender. It would be good to have the best evidence, including links, of what’s wrong with this. I am not suggesting they shouldn’t have any gender neutral toilets - but they shouldn’t be all gender neutral. Thanks.

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SmallPug · 10/11/2020 19:06

In the ‘women’s’ (any sex) they’re rooms with cubicles and shared hand washing bins. Not individual rooms (which would be fine). I haven’t been in the ‘men’s’ (any sex) to see if they have sanitary bins in there.

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Goosefoot · 10/11/2020 18:46

What kind of facilities are they?

For most shared ones, neither women or men love it, so I would focus on whether the people using them are actually happy with that situation.

If they are actually individual rooms, people may not care though, and there aren't the same arguments about safety.

midgebabe · 10/11/2020 18:42

Are there san bins in the gents? Because there should be to be truely inclusive of women who identify as men