Why have mixed toilets become so popular now?

[KatDubs261]

I am still fairly new to this debate but I am determined that we will keep our single sex spaces.

What I am wondering is - if transmen and transwomen have been using the gendered toilets they identify with for years - why is it only recently there has been a big push for mixed sex.toilets?

Sourced would be great

[sashagabadon]

@RiverRover

Also, a toilet is only one space in a building. Plenty of awful things could happen to that 14 year old once she leaves the women's toilet. Since we can't make the world or even the majority of spaces that that girl will pass through women-only, it might be more effective to work on methods of reducing rates of sexual crime committed by men.

Sure, but in the meantime, keep loos single sex

[Michelleoftheresistance]

What about the safety of kids in all of this.

Ah. Well.

Activist political lobby to women worried about safety to women and children of facilities with males in: never happens, are you calling all males perverts, has it happened to you personally (if so it was only a few times and it's wrong to judge others by one/three/twelve bad apples), you're paranoid and need help to get over your fear of people with penises, most women and children don't think there's a problem, if something happens you can always call the police.

Also activist political lobby: TW cannot possibly use facilities with males in because way too dangerous and scary, do you want us to be assaulted or too scared to go in?

You've missed the underpinning logic here which is that males matter, and non males don't.

[frazzledasarock]

Our local shopping centre has baby changing facilities with a massive glass sliding door on the entrance so basically one side of the room is completely see through. There is also a toilet cubicle in the room to one side with a floor to ceiling door and sink inside.

Outside there are a line of sinks to wash your hands after changing baby.

Baby changing facilities should be available in both male and female toilets.

Many years ago when I was teen Top Shop changed their toilets to unisex, there were cubicles of toilets and a giant round sink outside in the middle of the floor with loads of taps around it and a pedal underneath each tap to run it.
That trend didn't last long.