For building regs, all toilets including unisex have to be able to be openable from the outside outwards, because so many people collapse in toilets. This safety feature has been abused by men.
Waterloo Road did a storyline about endometriosis where a girl collapsed in the girls loos. Her friends went to find her and opened the door quickly. Of course, with ceiling to floor cubicles, how would you know? How do you know if someone has a cardiac arrest (11% are on the loo), a seizure or hypo?
I have asked for loo paper before when bleeding heavily and it got passed to me under the cubicle partition gap.
Mixed sex cubicles are always private, single sex ones don’t have to be if there’s a single sex area in front of the cubicle.
A gap 15cm from floor to door can save someone’s life and prevent assaults. That means single sex toilets building regs and health and safety legislation.
Voyeurism and sexual assaults are male crimes. Voyeurism by hidden cameras is on the increase. Private mixed sex cubicles give the best opportunity for men to spy on women.
Out all day so quickly writing on my phone. There is a big decrease in health and safety when you have complete privacy. Women, children, the medical vulnerable particularly those with invisible disabilities, are most likely to be affected.
Single sex toilets with door gaps, with a single sex area in front of the cubicles so the occupant is aware who is in the vicinity and people outside the cubicles are aware if the occupant is in trouble or possibly misusing the toilet, are the best design. Thats without even getting into cleaning, ventilation, pathogen load, hygiene and fire safety.