Newcastle students put sanitary bins in gents for the gender neutral

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Sanitary bins are to be placed in male lavatories at a university so that gender-neutral students can use facilities “they feel most comfortable with”.

Article in the Times by Gabriella Swerling

I'm sure our second hand tampon and towel wearers will be over the moon at this news.

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God I hope so. Part of me still hopes it's just a nasty joke.

I'm not sure why but 'unisex' loos bothers me not one jot - out local waitrose has one loo that covers men/women/disabled/baby changing - but 'gender fluid/neutral' (or whatever the kids are calling it these days) loos make me feel like I'd rather pee my pants than use it. It just smacks of trendy bandwagon jumping.

I worked for a fashion company in London. Unisex loos, except after a few weeks they had to make the first few cubicles men's ones as they made such a mess. I once tried to use a men's cubicle thinking it was silly to queue inside the toilets when one cubicle was empty. And I came straight back out and joined the queue again

I can therefore see why the ladies turns unisex and the men's is left as the men's.

Always felt a bit weird leaving the toilet with a male colleague but I didn't feel unsafe.

Won't the chaps get fucked off when they can't get in / out of cubicles without great difficulty (going in sideways, breathing in etc) then not being able to sit on the bog without coming into contact with something that stores bodily waste?

I mean I'm not that keen and I use then

OTOH most men train themselves to shit at certain times of the day and don't use public toilets for crapping (experience + multiple threads on here) so maybe most won't notice.

Finally. We might get some decently designed toiled cubicles then if an architect has to use a loo with an arse cheek hanging over a sanpro bin, given they never leave enough space.

I actually don't think the reused thing happened. I think it's someone's sexual fantasy we're reading there. But either way

Ever heard of 'bloodhound'

Not the dog

Well.

Completely confirms my assertion that Northumbria are and have been for some time the superior university of the two. (I've studied at both).

(Not read the full thread, sorry).

(Tbf I'm referring to the "gender is a spectrum thing". Ffs we just wore what we wanted in the 90's at that uni.)

Don’t they know that menstrual cups are all the rage now?

Quite how anybody would get one up their arse (and then retrieve it), boggles the mind. I wonder if anyone would be daft enough to try?

Surely bloodhound is just liking a woman on her period?

Bit of a step from there to a stranger's used products up your backdoor, no?

I want post of the day for that.

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Thanks chaps.