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Gateshead woman with alopecia accused of being male while using female toilet at Tesco (www.chroniclelive.co.uk)
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The 37-year-old, who has had the hair loss condition since she was a child, said she was left shocked when a cleaner at the Trinity Square shop asked her "Are you aware you're in the female toilet?" She said she became distressed and burst into tears.

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[–] 33 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Just get rid of gendered toilets already. If you can't play nicely with it, you shouldn't have it.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    The SEATAC airport has a few non-gendered restrooms and they're pretty nice. There's a big shared area with sinks, a wall of "stalls" (really fully enclosed toilet rooms, no panel gaps and floor to ceiling doors), and a separate room off in the back with urinals (and an automatic sliding door). Kinda seems like a pretty good solution all around.

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  • [–] 1 point 32 minutes ago

    It's close, but sometimes women really do need the whole room as private gendered space, eg to wash blood off clothing.

    The best solution is that each stall has its own sink, but that isn't usually practicable as it takes up more space and reduces the total number of stalls. Five Guys manage it, though.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    You need urinals in some fashion, a row of standing urinals can be pretty private if you just have a tall divider, but their throughput is so much higher it would be terrible if you lost them in high traffic areas.

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