I agree with you colourmystic.
So offensive that the Barbican’s own descriptions of their single sex (we are meant to assume) toilet provision is actually called ‘gendered’
So by labelling as such they are basically saying there are no single sex toilets in the building. Because ‘gendered’ toilets still means absolutely anyone can use it. Anyone eg male can decide their gender at the time they are close to a ladies’ loo if they just want to get in there and see what they can see and hear and they get off on women pissing. A known fetish. So they are forcing women to use dirty and less safe mixed sex cubicles as the relatively safer and more private option by reducing safety, privacy, dignity and security elsewhere, which is terrible.
Also it means that any complaints to the Barbican about men doing this kind of dangerous and escalatory behaviour in what women customers think are women's toilets, will never be acted on. By calling the ‘single sex’ toilets ‘gendered’ the barbican are trying to evade all responsibility for keeping toilet single sex and therefore evade b their own role in reducing sexual offences against women and their children using the toilets at their venue.
I’d also like to know how pushchairs (baby buggies) are supposed to be accommodated in these floor to ceiling cubicle designs?
They aren’t big enough spaces inside to get a pushchair in safely. No adult wants to hold their baby while they (the adult) are using the loo. But they would have to if the child is too young to be left alone outside a cubicle.
Also nobody wants to leave theit pushchair (which these days can cost hundreds to thousands) out in the communal area thoroughfares unobserved and unsecured.
Plus you can’t practically also bring and hold bring the pushchair’s contents of bags and supplies and coats for a day out with kids inside into the enclosed individual cubicle area. So we are supposed to just suck up an increased risk of theft, as well.
The Barbican is basically excluding single parents or any adult with a child who wants to visit the venue on their own. Or they are forcing ablebodied families with children to use the disabled toilets, simply because they need more private floor space to manage their needs. That is obviously highly ableist in removing provision from disabled people who are already under provided for with public toilets.
eg what if someone has two kids and needs to use the toilet with a baby and a toddler, and the toddler needs the toilet- so the adult is trying to hold the baby and help the toddler at the same time. Impossible really unless you have more than two arms. And while worrying about the security of the pushchair and its contents outside? That parent just won’t come back to that supposed ‘inclusive’ venue because it’s just too difficult for them to use. Massive two parent family privilege here or an anti child policy at work.
These problems are much improved and easier to manage with the normal single sex communal area, old school gaps-under-the-door type female-only toilet area. Because women can be confident there won’t be any men coming in.
This means you can bring your pushchair into the female toilets if you need to, you can leave your pushchair with baby in it while you leave the door to the stall open while helping the young child with the toilet and keeping an eye on the baby left strapped in the pushchair at the same time.