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There is no such thing as "Gender-neutral toilets" because toilets aren't masculine or feminine (tho, ppl are policed going into them depending on if they look masculine or feminine). If there isn't room in ur building/won't prioritise £ then don't put a gender neutral sign on...
...on your existing toilets. If you want good quality accessible toilets then they need to be single occupancy cubicles with sinks, mirror & sanitary provision in each. Doors from top to bottom with working locks. Must be accessed off an open, visible area, like lobby, bar space.
Don't put them down a long narrow corridor or up a dark flight of stairs. Women especially, but others too, may be anxious queuing next to men, passing men in narrow unobserved places. Schools especially need quality, private toilets, single occupancy.
Very idea that all these yrs teen girls have felt safe in communal cloakrooms, at communal sinks with toilet doors that have huge gaps at top & bottom, when such places have always been havens for bullying & pupils have always tried to go to loo during lessons for such reasons.
We already know this in schools, with single sex spaces. Adding even more people into those cloakrooms & calling them gender neutral, is not a good idea & don't pretend it does anyone any favours. Can you imagine being an NB or TG identified teen in such a space - not safe.
When I was at school girls teased, shamed & bullied other girls in girls cloakroom. It wasn't unusual if a girl was taking a while in a loo, for others to throw tampons up over the door & shout stuff. Most of us tried to go to loos on different floors, or during lessons.
Body positive, feminist communes they were not.
