Mixed sex toilets

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Wales Online have published an article about mixed sex toilets in Welsh schools, highlighting research from Lleisiau Merched Cymru that found that girls are missing school or refusing to drink all day so that don't have to use them.

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/pupils-missing-school-because-dont-15839558?fbclid=IwAR2uOXMN4LVJ6GaU7jO-yRYJ9D7_RQJvoV6TLnahB2eMdigAxtreVzke6eU

The comments section mentions that the doors can be opened from the outside making the girls even more vulnerable.

many young boys and men are not taught that, uh, ejaculate cannot go down the shower drain as it congeals

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Yeah, it’s disgusting. To be fair, I did not learn until I heard some men giving some other men a hard time about not knowing that. But I don’t own a penis so it was not something I ever had to be concerned about.

I was in Wagamama in Cardiff the other day, they have what are essentially mixed sex loos, one straight row of cubicles on your right as you walk in, with the first few are labelled for men and the next for women, the women’s are furthest from the door. I had gone up with my teenager. Now I know how they are laid out I would never let her go up alone, or even go alone myself. It was quiet, it would be easy for a man to push a girl in particular, or a woman into a cubicle and lock the door.

I arrive at a new place of work, to find we have 'mixed gender toilets'. On enquiry I am told the women (and it's predominantly women - 85%?) 'agreed' with it. Later I'm finding they didn't 'agree' with it. They just didn't want to cause a fuss and appear difficult.

As with so many inter-personal issues here, it isn't just the 'incidents', it's also the uncomfortableness, anxieties and concerns that women and girls are required to carry.

Does anybody remember when the word used to be "unisex"? It was a while back and everything was groovy. But it was usually about jeans and t-shirts.

I don't want men in the ladies room. If I see a man in the ladies room I will call it out, go postal, and I don't care if I get arrested.

I am also polite to the man in my local Asda who thinks he passes as a woman. Full make-up, massive shoes, fools nobody, but we are all nice to him. We all know. And so does he. We are props in his role play.

Women-only spaces are their ultimate goal.

No. No. NO.

We are props in his role play.

Yes.

I don't want men in the ladies room. If I see a man in the ladies room I will call it out, go postal, and I don't care if I get arrested.

We just need to say that there is a man there. No need to speculate about a hypothetical gender identity. Who knows? Let the service provider deal with that.