Temporary mixed sex changing at swimming pool

[Elepink]

Name changed for this.
The swimming pool is reopening next week - hurray! But they are not reopening the changing rooms due to Covid. Instead we have to arrive in our costumes and get changed (men and women together) in the long narrow spectator area at the side of the pool, and won't be able to choose where.

I phoned to ask them if they could have men and women at different ends for more privacy (it's a long pool) but the member of staff (all young men) said no, this isn't necessary as they expect customers to just towel dry themselves and leave (although they accept some will change totally).

I'm really stressed about this for reasons of privacy and dignity, and previous experience with a man trying to grope me at the pool (not reported at the time). Because this is a sensitive issue for me, I would appreciate honest advice on whether
1- to request again (any suggested wording?) they reconsider and let men/ women use different ends.
2-I should just accept not being able to go swimming again yet !

Thanks

My daughter swims/trains and this is the regime they now have to follow if they want to swim at all. They get out of the pool and are out of the building within about 5 mins.

So you shower before you leave home if you are sweaty/covered in sun cream etc. And arrive in your costume and then towel down and leave in the same kit.

Wearing artificial fibres helps.

Thankfully I've not had to get changed on a beach/ public place since I was a child- beaches are my idea of hell! (Though I guess at least you are with family/ friends on a beach, not forced into close proximity in a confined space with unknown men) .
As @MoltenLasagne picked up earlier, I am likely to be outnumbered by men at the swim sessions.
@2155User- yes this is the only forward I think. I'm really upset as it means I probably can't swim, but for me mixed sex changing is out of the question, degrading and humiliating.

However, perhaps the pool manager will see sense- as @Redheadsturnsheads said I don't think letting women change at the opposite end to men is a big ask...

@Angryresister

If you have women only sessions...absolutely essential in my view, it will be used as a testing ground for any guy who thinks he has a feeling he is a woman. Solution . Men only , women only ,and trans / non binary don’t knows in another .

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But it isn't mixed sex changing. Noone is changing. Taking off joggers and a t shirt and putting them back on. You'll be sharing the pool with near naked people anyway.

It isn't that nobody is changing, though, it is that nobody is expected to be changing. While it's mixed, they could easily decree no nudity, and I think they should. Otherwise it's too good an opportunity for exhibitionists to make a display of what they've got!

Why not suggest a 'No nudity while changing rooms are unavailable' ruling, with clear signage, OP?

I assumed it was no getting changed as well.

I wonder how the pool will feel when the people who aren't fussed (of which there will be more than exhibitionists) start stripping off in front of everyone/ stripping their younger children off.

I suspect they will introduce a rule pretty quick!

Also in general it's pretty shit that women have to cite personal previous trauma to explain why they don't want to get their kit off (be in a hosp ward etc) with men.

We have mixed changing rooms with (open top/bottom) cubicles, but the showers are open plan and mixed sex. There is a strict no nudity policy, although small kids are sometimes naked. It's been like this for the 12yrs I've lived here. I have to admit, I feel a bit uncomfortable sharing a shower in close proximity to a random bloke, the shower heads are fairly close together, it feels different to sharing a pool and I'm not normally one to bother about things like this. So I can imagine a lot of women go without the showers.

I'd hate the mixed sex open plan changing mentioned by the OP. You just know some bloke will get his kicks by stripping off.

Just to add our cubicles do have doors, realised my post suggested otherwise.