To wonder why an MP is lying about womens bathrooms?

So what are the facts?

Fact 1: Women are poorly served by public toilet provision because we typically take longer and are typically afforded the same amount of space which means many more men can use them than women in an equivalent space (because men can use urinals. Yes I know this is obvious).

Fact 2: the Barbican has rebranded some of its women's toilets to be gender neutral, thereby reducing the provision of women's toilets further still.

I can't see how even @TeaKlaxon can argue with that.

Thanks Clymene . Not sure where I am supposed to go. A series of gender neutral cubicles next to each mean that I am likely to be in a space while vulnerable next to someone with their dick out. I want to go to a women only space.

The OP is the one spreading misinformation, claiming the MP's tweet stated there were no womens toilets at the barbican. The tweet says nothing of the sort. The tweet says that the woman who asked about the women's toilets was laughed at by staff, doesn't say anything about whether there were or weren't women's toilets.

Unless you are the 10 year old assaulted by the trans woman Katie Dolatowski.

www.scotsman.com/regions/edinburgh-fife-and-lothians/female-spaces-need-better-protection-after-trans-woman-sex-assault-girl-say-campaigners-140883

but not really anything to do with the OP, which is the blatant misinformation by Lucy Allen.

So where are the women's toilets? Are they beside all the others? Are they easy to find? How many are there?

Your problem is that those instances are true.

The most accessible women's loos have been rebranded. The ones nearest the main entrances, transport connections, on the ground floor. The women's loos no longer exist there. Women are being disadvantaged in droves in order to satisfy those who shout "anti trans" cobblers at every opportunity.

When women point out a blindingly obvious inequity it behoves you, organisations, everyone to stop and think past your own bias.

Wanking not walking

Quite frankly the toilet argument is the thin end of the wedge, you won't find TRAs like the op going gung ho into conversations about rape crisis and medicalisation of children under the gender ideology banner as it is not as easy to dismiss such concerns.

I agree it is not possible to police, and transsexuals have been using with no problems for years, but the trans train today is very different- eg you have grown men filming themselves walking in women's toilets dressed as a woman, by crossing the boundaries in such a manner you cause lines to be drawn.

I don't know what the third one is at the back but a gender neutral toilet is , by definition, not a sex-specific one. Why not change the men's to gender neutral if allegedly it's not an issue.

There is nothing to indicate that women's toilets are harder to find.

Except this photo which clearly shows the women's toilets have been converted into gender neutral ones.

A "bathroom" is a room with a bath in it: it may or may not also contain a toilet/lavatory.

If you have to ask a member of staff, it's not easy to find. If that member of staff laughs in your face, they should be fired. AND it says something about the culture of the place that they think it's ok to do this.

I was referring to finding a toilet and the signposting involved. There is nothing to indicate it is harder for women to find a toilet than men.

I thought a female person had asked a staff member so why would she ask a staff member if they are so easy to find?

Do you work there, is that it?

That's a good argument for there being more women's toilets

It is, isn't it? And not converting them to mixed sex ones that many women don't want to use.

There are women's toilets at the Barbican, and they are not hidden. In fact from memory there are women's toilets on pretty much every floor. Certainly that is the case in and around the main auditorium, which is the part of the Barbican I am most familiar with.

Have you popped there this morning to check?

I guess the issue is that they have changed some of the female toilets to mixed sex [possibly since your last visit unless you work there in which case you should express your interest in this issue], and labelled them 'gender neutral' and the question is - how many females ones are left and are they easily accessible.

I was referring to finding a toilet and the signposting involved. There is nothing to indicate it is harder for women to find a toilet than men.

Apart from staff members laughing in womens faces when they ask where the ladies toilets are?

Bet they wouldn't have laughed in a man's face.

"Someone complaining there isn't a sign in the very specific place they happen to be stood at one particular time is being a bit pathetic IMO."
How very dare someone who is trying to access a toilet in a public place complain.

OP, you are just plain wrong here. The tweet doesn't say there are no women's toilets so it doesn't really matter if there are or not (in terms of whether the MP is spreading misinformation). The tweet says that a person was laughed at for asking where the women's toilets were. None of us can say whether that actually happened, but I'm not sure why you find it difficult to believe.

I actually have seen UK toilets being "policed" - in clubs when I was younger, where many times women challenged men who attempted to follow a young woman into the women's toilets.

For toilet errrm "enthusiasts" (and Mumsnet seems to attract them) apparently it's all being redone soon anyway:
www.procurement.co.uk/tender_details/7d2092b0-fead-439b-a3b4-2479d8bddbb5