Can I ask if you be happy with mixed sexed changing rooms

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Just that really not loos but changing rooms
Gyms swimming pools
Keep in mind many changing rooms have no cubicles or if they do they simply have curtains like this images.app.goo.gl/H6pdSPuXJiUqjs817

Why did you ask the question if you already have an idea of what you want to hear ... are you going to use this thread as evidence to the gym to change their policy??

I would be fine in a cubicle and presently use this system at the swimming pool.

She's a young adult but has AS and would have been beside herself had she realised.

I gave him what my DCs call my 'teacher look' but didn't want to call my DD's attention so didn't say anything.

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No I am interested to hear others views

I don’t know if others feel the same or different don’t think I have been rude I have allowed others to share this is a debating site

"This is a bad idea. Men will attack and target women for sexual harrassment when the opportunity presents itself, like in changing rooms and toilets"

"PROVE IT"

"wEll tHaTs nOt a peeR ReVieWed SciEncE pApEr bUt whAteVer sUits YouR agEnDa"

Locking cubicle is fine with me
Curtains aren’t good enough
Communal absolutely no way-who on earth would fancy that. I have been a member of more than one gym in the 90s with communal changing. Sex segregated of course. I went to a swimming pool with communal recently too.
Mixed sex communal would be the stupidest idea.

Wouldn't like it at all unless they were head to floor cubicles with no way of seeing or being seen by males. Also probably with some kind of attendant so that younger females could be protected from any leering or worse.

Fine if there are cubicles with doors. I've never heard of mixed sex changing areas which have curtains instead of doors, or open plan mixed sex changing areas.

My issue with mixed sex changing rooms in my swimming pool is not so much the changing area, but the showers. Three small shower heads in a row, no cubicles. I used to swim competitively and in single sex shower areas you could have a proper wash, some women would strip off, no one was bothered because it was single sex.
Now as a pp has said, men are soaping up and taking their time in the shower, I feel constrained (esp post kids, I don’t want to draw attention to my not perfect at all body) not to wash the chlorine off properly and try and wait until I’m home to shower. It’s bad for the skin especially if you swim regularly.
I’m ambivalent about encouraging my daughter to go in for swimming as a sport as I did when she will be faced with mixed sex showers and changing rooms as she grows up and goes through puberty. I also don’t want to swim anymore to keep fit.
It’s sad.

Absolutely not comfortable with this for many of the reasons already mentioned. Had too many occasions as a teenager when men wd flash near our (girls) school, in the local library to a friend, on a school trip...can't see that then giving a better opportunity to have an 'oops my towel slipped on the way to the locker' moment is a great idea. Its not even so much for me but the greater vulnerability of a lone teenager or those who have experienced past trauma.

Absolutely not. Separate for me.

No. Absolutely not. And I, nor any woman should ever have to justify this.

Wouldn't be happy with curtains. Or gaps above and below. So many Peeping Toms about

I also prefer somewhere I can dry my hair and put my makeup on.

One of our larger local pools also has just a changing village with mixed sex changing facilities. It's perfectly private and feels very safe. My son has a hidden disability and wouldn't be able to change in a men's room on his own. The mixed sex facilities are perfect for us as they mean he can join me in a cubicle rather than him ( and fellow swimmers) feeling uncomfortable about him being in the ladies changing or us taking up a disabled cubicle for wheelchair users. I much prefer separate mixed-sex cubicles.

Fine for me with cubicles or curtains. I wouldn’t be comfortable with open plan with men or women.

All the swimming pools near me have mixed sex changing, lots of rows of cubicals and a big line of showers with no dividers. When we go it’s a quick rinse and wash your hair then to a cubical to get dried. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember even as a child.

I wouldn’t be happy.
Curtains aren’t good enough, children are buggers for opening curtains, and they can be fast. At least if they do it in a women’s changing area, they are only exposing the poor occupant to other women. It’s happened to me loads in shop changing rooms.
Also seeing the level of harassment my daughter routinely got on busy streets in the middle of the day as a teenager, I do not trust some men not to “accidentally” barge in etc.
I would cope reluctantly in a busy mixed changing room with floor to ceiling, lockable changing cubicles, however if it was very quiet, there is no way I’d put myself in the position of finding myself alone in the changing room with a strange, unvetted man. A lone woman is just too vulnerable.

My question has not been answered:

Where are these open plan unisex changing rooms/ gym cubicles with curtains?

And what schools have unisex changing facilities?

Where are these open plan unisex changing rooms/ gym cubicles with curtains?

Why?

In my case it was a GAP store.

Not usually but these curtains are rubbish, some dont close all the way, you can still see through the gaps on both sides of the curtain!

Our local pools also have changing villages with mixed sex changing facilities. There are cubicles but there gaps at the top and the bottom. I have chased away teenage boys leering - all they have to do is stand on the bench and they are head and shoulders above the wall with a good view of all the "private cubicles".

But of course this never happens.

They're all over here and it's not a problem.

No I wouldn't be happy with it and I would be even more concerned for my teenage DD.

Mythical our pool as bars across the top of the changing room to stop anyone standing on the bench. You could still hold a phone/camera over but that would be it.

I wouldn’t be that happy, if they had a locking door fine but not just a curtain.

There’s an old Victorian baths near me that has the cubicles round the side of the pool with a wooden half door thing in the middle and a half curtain at the top. Not a great arrangement but I expect they’re limited in what they can do