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Which would you choose - urinals or cubicles?

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Galen Sat 08-Apr-17 16:27:04

Never bothered me in France.
Perhaps the gender neutral is for transgender folk.

ginny Sat 08-Apr-17 16:25:16

Bad enough when you need to use public looos anyway. The thought of sharing them and having to pass by men standing at the urinals. !!! No thanks.

Christinefrance Sat 08-Apr-17 16:20:44

Here in France there is often one toilet area with urinals as you go in and cubicles further back. I really don't like it but the French are much more relaxed about these things. Still quite usual to see men urinating by the roadside whilst travelling. My husband has had a lot of bladder problems and privacy during examinations is not really an option. The health care is excellent though.

Rigby46 Sat 08-Apr-17 15:25:12

x-posts tanith

Rigby46 Sat 08-Apr-17 15:24:43

And not only that shysal - whenever I've been passing a male toilet and the door opened, the stench usually made me gag. So men coming into what was - oh so quaintly called the 'ladies' - as is happening at the Barbican, will no doubt affect the cleanliness. So we can choose not to go in the loos with urinals but we can't choose to keep men out of those without urinals. I have to say WTAF?

tanith Sat 08-Apr-17 15:21:52

Couldn't stand the smell to be perfectly honest..grin

shysal Sat 08-Apr-17 15:09:40

I would be most unhappy using a cubicle while men were using urinals! Nor would I consider taking a female child into such a set-up!

Rigby46 Sat 08-Apr-17 14:29:22

Yes both have cubicles - but one gender neutral toilet also has urinals as well as cubicles. So would you be fine with a) using a cubicle in the toilets with urinals b) having men come into the gender neutral toilet with nonurinals in order to use a cubicle?

tanith Sat 08-Apr-17 14:04:24

I do get that it would probably mean men using the 'ladies' if the mens is busy but they also have cubicles in the 'mens' of course.

MawBroon Sat 08-Apr-17 13:57:25

Well obviously!
The problem is that the pressure on what were formerly "Ladies" is now further increased by the addition of men wanting to use the cubicles.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-queue-up-to-condemn-arts-centres-unisex-lavatories-jq9mswjsp

NanaandGrampy Sat 08-Apr-17 13:56:43

Cubicles ! It's a no brainier.... how the hell would I wee in a urinal in my no-fly trousers and my stick and my handbag ? smile

tanith Sat 08-Apr-17 13:48:11

Well having to squat to pee I would choose the cubicles I'm not sure any woman I know would choose the urinals.

Rigby46 Sat 08-Apr-17 12:42:09

So you're at an entertainment venue, for example, the Barbican Centre. At the interval would you choose ' gender neutral toilets with urinals' or 'gender neutral toilets with cubicles'?