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Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England
Submitted 6 months ago by Mex@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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li10@feddit.uk 6 months ago
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The UK is not OK
cynar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The Tories are desperately trying to find something to appeal to voters. Based off of the recent council elections, they are looking at being devastated in the next general election.
Unfortunately, when you corner a wounded animal, they tend to lash out at whatever they can, before you kill them. Unfortunately, they can still drag it out till January 2025.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I wish they would try something else than trying to ignite culture wars
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Let alone the gender wars, this is stupid because it’s impractical. The only division we need is stalls vs urinals. If you already have stalls, everyone has all the privacy they need. What’s the point of gendered toilets??
CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Wait what if the building is a small shop that has a singular room with a toilet and sink in it? The little bookstore near my house only has 1 water closet. Those type of stores will be illegal to build from now on?
Barabas@hexbear.net 6 months ago
That would be a ‘universal’ toilet and thus allowed.
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.
Adkml@hexbear.net 6 months ago
God these people are fucking stupid.
That’s a gender neutral bathroom.
It doesn’t mean there’s a stripper pole and a doctor handing out hormones.
llamajester421@kbin.social 6 months ago
What boggles me is that the latter "universal toilet" is what most conservatives ferociously battled when it is called a "gender neutral bathroom", like disabled bathrooms and residential ones. Face=palm.
Yor@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Naich@lemmings.world 6 months ago
We might be literally swimming in shit but at least it comes from gender-specific toilets. Hooray for the Tories.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Mumsnet strikes again.
Aaaaas a mother…
FFS those people.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Gender specific?
Who in their right mind would be able to create infinite toilets to have a specific toilet for every gender on the spectrum between feminine and masculine?
Or do they mean sex specific toilets? Which is just awful and non-enforceable.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Or do they mean sex specific toilets? Which is just awful and non-enforceable.
Oi M8 u got a penis with that?
valkyre09@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m confused. Aren’t disabled toilets gender neutral?
Shou@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good point. Need more toilets with greater accessibility.
Wahots@pawb.social 6 months ago
This is absolutely bizarre. At least in NA, there’s a decent number of family/unspecified restrooms, which are also gender neutral and usually have a changing station. Some have gendered bathrooms as well. But for stuff like apartments, usually they just do a few unspecified bathrooms as it is easier to do.
This seems awfully unnecessary and expensive just to spite, what, 1% of the UK population?
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
It’s not to spite 1%. It’s to give two sets of 49% safe spaces from the other 49%. Recent changes in attitude haven’t made the previous need for segregation go away.
jonne@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Wtf do people do in bathrooms? You go in, find a stall, do your business and then wash your hands. Why does it have to be gendered? If it’s about perverts creeping, what is this doing about same sex perverts?
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Have people been unsafe in unisex bathrooms?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Who is being protected from what here?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Trans women are 49% of the population? Wow that’s crazy, where are they I want to meet them
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 months ago
All residential bathrooms are woke
jonne@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I just want an MP to stand up during the debate on this and say something to the effect of: “I have it on good authority that the honourable member from Toryshire has a gender neutral bathroom in his own house! What is he hiding?”
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I can’t decide if I want to die or emigrate.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Help is coming. I have to believe it. It’s been a long long cold mean period in UK politics, and I know that Labour doesn’t look much better.
But I’ve lived in other countries and seen other endless conservative governments come to an end, kicking and lashing out just like this. And I can tell you honestly how refreshing it is to wake up and know that today, while people are unlikely to make things better any time quickly, nobody is going to make things worse.
Sending love.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I really needed to here this. Thank you.
match@pawb.social 6 months ago
Live. Fight. Flee if you must.
TeddyKila@hexbear.net 6 months ago
balkanize these isles
Thordros@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Get that big bucket wheel excavator from Germany to dig up the edge of the English Channel and sink the island into the sea.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Ally McBeal was nearly 30 years ago now and we’re still stuck on this.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When I was 8yo and saw that Ally McBeal episode, I was blown away by the idea of men and women sharing a bathroom. Then my sister looked me in the eye and said, “We share a bathroom.”
Figured it out that early.
EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I find this funny because the government buildings I’ve been in all had gender specific toilets made universal instead. Apparently they can’t make their minds up
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Seems to be common sense
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes all the right wing cruelty laws are written this way (or presented this way). If one had to explain it to a child it would sound very common sense.
But, of course, that is not the point of the law at all.
Bremmy@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
How so?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 6 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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 equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, said the move will help combat the rise of gender-neutral toilet spaces, which she said “deny privacy and dignity to both men and women”.
She asked people to report public bodies that fail to provide single-sex spaces or have policies not in accordance with the Equality Act.
Badenoch said the move shows the government’s commitment to “ensuring single-sex spaces are protected for all” after plans to overhaul the NHS constitution by limiting the use of gender-neutral wards.
“This is following our work last week limiting the use of mixed-sex wards in the NHS and demonstrates how this government is committed to ensuring single-sex spaces are protected for all.”
The government guidelines for how schools in England deal with transgender and young people require schools to maintain separate toilets and changing facilities for children aged eight years and over, allows staff and students to ignore pronouns preferred by socially transitioning children, and allows for sport and PE activities to be segregated by sex if there are safety concerns.
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rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Glad there’s literally nothing more important that our dickhead politician class could be working on 👍
Hol@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Spacious room with a single toilet and a floor to ceiling solid wood door: 🚨ILLEGAL🚨. But add a sink and anyone can poop to their heart’s content.
It seems the issue here is actually mixed gender handwashing, which is the real scourge.
jonne@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Mingling mens and womens hands in the same bank of sinks is obviously going to lead to sinful behaviour.