Unisex Changing Rooms?

[mushroom25]

A proposal for a swimming pool in London is creating a bit of a stir....
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/anger-over-plans-to-create-unisex-changing-rooms-at-chelsea-swimming-pool-a3372896.html

one of the drivers of this is to make the facilities "universally accessible", meaning an acceptance that society's traditional "2 gender" view is outdated and divisive.

......is it?

[ummmm]

It wouldn't bother me if they had cubicles.

[emeritus]

My local pool is Unisex changing and has been for a few years. No problems whatsoever.

[mallyh]

i don't like this idea at all ,I don't even like going into ladies only communal changing rooms in clothes shops, no privacy .

[ummmm]

I don't either Mally.

[naomi24]

A council run pool that I know of has always had unisex changing rooms. It’s a large area filled with separate changing cubicles, some big enough to accommodate parents with children. It also has unisex shower cubicles, but toilets are separate. It works well enough.

[naomi24]

mallyh, I don't like ladies only communal changing areas in shops either. I like my privacy.

[ummmm]

We do have a unisex changing room at our local pool but it's aimed at parents with children. It has a changing table and play pen full of toys.

[Old_Geezer]

If one is pandering to this nonsense that there is not two genders, would that not include toilets too ?

When I was a kid and told to go to the swimming pool the cubicles had just a curtain to pull across. Mixed changing rooms could prove interesting.

That aside, organised properly, it should be fine. But better still, one could avoid getting wet (and verrucas) by simply avoiding pools.

[EDDIE51]

Unisex changing is the norm rather than the exception now, I don't see what the fuss is about.

[naomi24]

There will be individual cubicles and the toilets will remain separate. That sounds ok to me.

[youngmafbog]

The problem is, if they dont no doubt soon they will be forced to have multiple changing rooms to accommodate the latest liberal cross gender agenda.

Personally I have no issue with it and I doubt most men would either.

Toilets will be next BTW.

[Khandro]

On trains and planes, the toilets are for everyone (though not on ships for some reason) no problem.

[ummmm]

Khandro - That would be a space issue.

When the pubs shut in the afternoon it was my job to clean the toilets. I would not want to share toilets with males.

[Gromit]

My local pool has had mixed changing areas for years, probably decades.
It is the most efficient use of the space. There are no problems with it.

[chelle7272]

A local pub being refurbished, toilets weren't ready for openeing so men and women had to share the men's.
Worse, last week the landlady says she now has a ladies toilet, there were two toilets in one cubicle....

[mushroom25]

a few years ago on a visit via Milan Linate airport, the airside ladies toilets were closed for repairs, and everyone was using the gents. 2 city types were discussing this, one said to his colleague "aren't you worried about the ladies seeing how endowed you are?", to which the response was "nah, we're British, and the inch has been revalued against the centimetre.... "

[Khandro]

ummmm; // I would not want to share toilets with males. //

As a slight aside; My neighbour's policewoman daughter, charged with the unenviable task of trying to keep order in an immigrant hostel, said one Muslim gentleman had s***t on the corridor floor, saying he wouldn't use a wc which had been used by a Christian.

[ummmm]

When I went to Thailand the only toilets were the squat ones. It is so much hard work to trying to hold your lovely new trousers up and down and squat at the same time to avoid all the pee on the floor...

[anotheoldgit]

This thread is beginning to stink.

[aelmpvw]

//saying he wouldn't use a wc which had been used by a Christian.//

how would he know, are there tell tale signs?