MN High Street Changing Rooms Marking System

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As a follow-on from the Matalan changing room post, some thought we could devise some kind of marking system for changing rooms in high street stores.

I have no real idea how best to do so. Here are some thoughts. A marking system from 1-5, with 1 being poor or insufficient and 5 being excellent

1. Sex segregated? 1 for unisex, 5 for sex not gender segregated
2. Design Safety- consider: is there a curtain or door? is the door lockable? Is the door and walls floor to ceiling or are their gaps which could permit predators to film you?
3. Staff Attendance- consider, are staff on-hand to monitor those access changing rooms, are they capable of dealing with predatory people, could they hear you if you were in trouble?
4. Security- follow on from above, does the store have proper security nearby to the changing rooms should they need to apprehend someone misusing the changing facilities or harassing customers
5. Position of Mirrors- consider, do customers need to exit their changing area to check garment in a mirror? Are you observable by others as you check yourself in a mirror?

I’m happy to have anyone suggest better categories or a totally different way of doing it! I thought we could use this thread to share photos and ratings. As the OP I could update regularly with full lists of rated stores?

Any and all suggestions or ideas are welcome

Well this was years back - when I was a student. The floor manager was a very no nonsense woman I think in her fifties who dealt with most of it.

But that was in a time where it was considered shocking for a man to enter a women’s changing rooms. And so when no man who was dealt with for doing so would do anything other than slink off. These were just regular men by the way - not transwomen. But it illustrates why spaces need to be single sex, because that proportion of men who want to do this will find it much easier.

Needless to say I am always very nice to retail staff, because they put up with some real crap.

These were just regular men by the way - not transwomen

Regular men who get their rocks off from transgressing women's boundaries. But none of them, not one, will take advantage of anything that makes it easier for men to access spaces that were formerly strictly women only. Oh no sirree, it'll never ever happen

/s