Gender Neutral Toilets

[mushroom25]

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10229090.New_Rottingdean_toilets_go____gender_neutral___/

a further example of creeping political correctness?

or a genuine attempt by a public body to be inclusive to all - as well as recognising the situation seen regularly on the continent, particularly at motorway services....

[society]

To be honest unless it's a long flight, I hold 'it' until I get home.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Just keep the urinals away from the cubicles :-) ///

That would only lead to claims of 'separatism' in this politically correct world that we now live in. :0)

[youngmafbog]

In our house I have my own bog. The girls wont let me use the other two.

dog has the back garden.

[mushroom25]

some years ago i was at linate airport in milan, during yet another utility failure that had closed the female facilities, resulting in everyone using the male toilets. the queue for the cubicles went past the urinals and out of the door.

2 business types were at adjacent urinals discussing the microcosm of italy that is linate airport. one said "doesn't being watched by women bother you?" to which his colleague replied "nah, we're British. The inch has been revalued....".

[emmie]

better to keep them clean than daft rebranding..

[FredPuli43]

Failure of female toilets or not,my daughter regularly strides into the mens' when the queue for the ladies' is intolerable. She is not alone. I have witnessed this in London, where she lives, more than once, but on no occasion was the woman older than 30, at a guess.

[emmie]

i have done the same, gone into the gents, you can't stand there with a queue of 20 women while there are cubicles free in the gents.

[boxtops]

My mother and I used to live in Rottingdean......

I can imagine that given it's only a couple of miles outside Brighton, it's avoiding any sort of gender issues.

I really don't see the problem thought, the toilets at our railway station are for anyone, they have a man and a woman on the doors - as do the toilets in trains - where's the fuss about that?

[ladybirder]

It's the name, not the toilets that's the issue. Gender Neutral instead of Unisex is ridiculous. Smacks of political correctness and doesn't exactly trip off the tongue like Unisex.

[joko]

problem is many male toilets stink and have sopping wet floors and toilets ... whereas ladies are usually a bit nicer.

i also think many women wont want to go in if there are a load of blokes in there, or worse some dodgy perve ...

ill bet many of the people saying its fine have never actually been in a mens...

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I worked in a place that had gender neutral toilets 12 years ago. There was always the disabled loo if you didn't fancy it.