Last week female students at the University of Plymouth have been told not to confront anyone they suspect of posing as a woman in their toilets - and instead 'protect them from harm'. It is not clear what consultation with the public was done over the unisex loos. It decides to introduce an additional gender-neutral toilet, and puts up signs telling all users that they may use either the toilet for their biological sex or to use the gender neutral toilet. The centre could conduct a survey in which some service users say that they would not use the centre if the toilets were open to members of the opposite biological sex, for reasons of privacy and dignity or because of their religious belief. The EHRC says that to ensure they are fully inclusive, and to make the most effective use of the available facilities, the cafe could decide to make them all gender neutral.Ī second example is a community centre which has separate male and female toilets. One is a small cafe with limited space and facilities for public use which has separate lockable, self-contained male and female toilets with hand basins in single units. The guidance says that toilets can be legally limited to men and women with separate gender-neutral facilities as long as trans people are taken into account. 'How many gender-neutral children does the council think are going to be using the soft play ball pit?' 'I am not sure exactly why they have to be unisex - why couldn't they have done half of them for men and half of them for women, with maybe two gender-neutral?
'One father told me it ran the risk of being a perverts' paradise because they were gender neutral. One mother told MailOnline: 'Anyone can use these toilets really because they are public conveniences, but people have gone mad about it. The £1.99 stainless steel badges show merged symbols for a man and woman, with the design appearing to show them holding hands. New facilities in King George's Playing Fields in Brentwood were opened by the Mayor, Councillor Olivia Sanders, in March to much fanfare.īut joy over a new pavillion building, complete with soft play and sensory room is rapidly turned to disgust over the council's choice of lavatories.Ī few steps away from a children's ball pit are eight gender-neutral toilets that are the centre of parental storm. The town where The Only Way is Essex is filmed is at the centre of a trans rights row - after a £7million children's play area was fitted with gender-neutral toilets.