Unisex toilets in school?

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I apologise if this topic has been discussed before - it probably has, but I must have missed it.

My DTDs are starting high school in September. During a parents information evening earlier this week we were all quite surprised to see the toilets are unisex. Boys on one side and girls on the other, but in the same room with only a low row of basins separating the two areas.

Now I have no problem with gender neutrality/trans sexualism/any other ality or ism, and whether you call yourself he, she or it, but...girls of this age are at the most akward stage of their lives - they're developing boobs, starting periods etc. So isn't being told they have to share a bathroom with boys going to make matters worse and even more akward?

I get that they're trying to make toilets accessable for children of every persuasion, but what about girls' rights to privacy at a weird and embarrassing stage of their lives?

And what about children with special needs? My one DD is autistic - once she starts her periods she's going to have a real - and I mean melt-down real - problem with sharing a bathroom with boys.

Welcome to our Brave New World

If the facilities entail boys being on one side and girls on the other they’re not actually unisex really. Also won’t satisfy the vocal trans lobby. They will only be happy when people say trans women are women regardless of appearance and them having a beard or whatever

And lobbyists complained about self contained cubicles with floor to ceiling doors. I wonder why?

@LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD - self contained cubicles are all well and good - but as a pp mentioned - say a girl is having a heavy period and her hand is covered in blood. She now has to walk up to a sink - not against the opposite wall so she has her back to the boys, but actually facing the boy side, and wash her hands where all the boys can see what she's doing. Is this considered OK?

Not in the least.