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Related: About this forumGender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England
Source: The Guardian
Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England
Ministers say move will combat growing concerns about privacy and dignity in gender-neutral facilities
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi
Mon 6 May 2024 00.08 BST
Last modified on Mon 6 May 2024 00.26 BST
New restaurants, offices, schools and hospitals in England will be required to have separate male and female toilets, in a move ministers say will combat growing concerns about privacy and dignity in gender-neutral facilities.
The law will mean newly built non-residential buildings require separate facilities, and cannot solely have universal lavatories.
According to ministers, 81% agreed with the intention for separate single-sex toilet facilities in a consultation on the proposals, while 82% also agreed with the intention to provide universal toilets a self-contained, and a fully enclosed toilet room with a wash hand basin for individual use where space allows.
The government said the new requirements will mean people of all genders have access to facilities, either through a separate single-gender space or a universal toilet.
However, the policy has been criticised as being transphobic ...
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/gender-specific-toilets-to-be-required-in-non-residential-buildings-in-england
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OAITW r.2.0
(26,894 posts)Men bathrooms have urinals and stalls.
Female bathrooms have stalls.
If you look like a male, use a stall. If you look like a female, use a stall. What am I missing here? Are gender genitalia checks required to use a bathroom now? And who checks?
Marcuse
(7,832 posts)![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Urinella.jpg)
Doodley
(9,786 posts)Eugene
(62,392 posts)The article goes on to say that, in schools, trans and non-binary students
must be segregated from the binary bathrooms.
It's all in the context.
Doodley
(9,786 posts)RainCaster
(11,245 posts)Their walls go floor to ceiling, doors too. Much more civilized.
Really, given that, it doesn't matter what your sex is. It be private in the privy.
Doodley
(9,786 posts)ot the gaps between the panels are sometimes like an inch wide. I'm a very private person and do not like it! I lived in UK most my life and it was a shock when I first came to America.