Try again. I didn’t see it. I have spent lots of time looking at what the best designs are for everyone - I want everyone to be safe. That’s why I do this research.
My research is based on several years of evidence. My research findings are not a belief. I wouldn’t say anything I could not back up. I collect data, analyse it and present evidence. I have discussed toilet design with designers, manufacturers, architects, police, government officials, train station staff, cleaners, ambulance staff, other medics, scientists, academics, BSR, HSE, health charities, aid charities, women’s charities, politicians, fire service etc etc. I could write 3 volumes about what happens in non domestic toilets in this country.
Please tell me about the transmen who use men’s facilities. What kind of facility is this? Nightclub? Pub? Station? Schools? Is it toilets or changing rooms? I am intrigued as it is unusual. Did they have any options? What did they say about their experience? What did the men think?
Then please would you answer nine yes or no health and safety questions for me, on design, in return?
These are the yes or no questions so very quick to reply:
Q1) is it a good thing we have a programme of rolling out defibrillators across schools, venues and workplaces so that we have a timely and best chance of surviving if we collapse?
Q2) is it important that the place where you go when you feel ill is safe?
Q3) and in a non-domestic situation that would often be the toilet cubicle?
Q4) so is it important that you would be found as quickly as possible in the toilet cubicle if the illness increased in severity to the point you suddenly collapsed?
Q5) so if toilets were all enclosed in full height ceiling-to-floor rooms that were resistant to the passage of sound, do you agree that could lead to delays finding someone who had collapsed?
Q6) so if we get rid of all the single sex designs that have door gaps to instead make them inclusive of gender, that would mean everyone was more at risk at their most vulnerable?
Q7) and would those people with invisible disabilities (conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, heart conditions, POTS) be as safe in the workplace if only enclosed toilets were available?
Q8) and would women and children who were led or pushed back into a toilet room be less likely to be rescued in time if there was no knowledge of what was going on in the toilet room?
Q9) so would single sex toilets that were in a single sex environment (and had door gaps) also be a preventative measure for sexual assaults on women and children?
I have studied toilet safety for years now and know the healthiest and safest design for the most vulnerable: the medically vulnerable, women and children. It is the single sex design, which is the one that can have door and partition gaps (typically up to 15cm from floor-door and space above the door and partitions). But this design becomes floor-to-ceiling enclosed when both sexes are in the space in front of the toilet door.
‘Inclusive’ designs are least bad for healthy men. Healthy men are least likely to understand the need for safe toilet and changing room design.