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Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says Equality and Human Rights Commission
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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At work we had a male and female single-cubicle bathroom in reception. These are high-value bathrooms at work for dropping off the kids.
Somebody complained that there weren't any gender neutral bathrooms so they're both unisex now.
Now the men use the women's bathroom and the women don't use it anymore.
If it's single unit why would women not use it anymore...?
My work had gendered single unit bathrooms but the women's bathroom was farther away from the office space and since it was single room people of any gender just used the closer one regardless, and eventually they just swapped out the signs to gender neutral ones because of it's single stall who gives a shit? No one is going in there with you.
Because men tend to cover things in their own excrement and leave toilet seats up or piss on them etc etc etc.
My highschool job was working at a sporting goods store. My closing duties each night were to clean the women's restroom and occasionally cover for another department to clean the men's room. I can tell you that the women's restroom was always grosser. Yeah, there would be more pee on the seats and floor in the men's room, but the rest of the place was far cleaner than the women's.
Bathrooms are safe spaces for women. A line must be drawn in the most easy to define way to exclude men from the women's bathroom. This is a court ruling to define law.