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.
Isn’t that exactly what the law forces though? To somehow decide based on looks alone who should be in which toilet?
Couldn’t they also just not do that? Surely the law doesn’t require them to hire someone to police the toilets.
Gender neutral toilets could also get around it surely. Worked in multiple places with them and no one has ever cared.
It pretty much does. Not specifically to have someone dedicated to check everyone, but they have to take reasonable measures and a member of staff speaking up would fall under that.
Why though? Its a toilet. Couldn’t they just say the sign is only suggested genders. Women can clean men’s toilets still.
Point is, there are malicious people, both men and women. I think there have to be security measures in order for it to be impossible (or at least, highly difficult) to do things as spying or putting hidden cameras. But of course, that shouldn’t be done based only in the looks, but mostly in the behaviour. Anyone with a suspicious behaviour should be policed, but that’s like something that should be taken for granted in the first place.
About this, I ask rhetorically: would you also say that “men can clean women’s toilets still”? I personally doubt it given a lot of previous experiences on this topic, and I believe that in such a case one must be consistent: either both or neither.
Yes. I don’t even see why we need to have gendered toilets in the first place. No one has one at home. Seen a fair few places with a single toilet that is obviously not gendered. Never seen a gendered disabled toilet either.
Well, that’s fair.
In a gender-neutral bath we can have the double of good people to stop any bad person that wants to abuse others while they’re vulnerable, so, yeah, I don’t know either why there is a separation. If anything, there could be gendered baths only for people that feel really uncomfortable in gender-neutral ones, but that’s only to have more options (which is always good).
Exactly what the law enforces will differ by jurisdiction
This is in England.
This is not devolved and I believe the law being refered to is the one that has been clarified in the recent guidance after a supreme court decision.
Health is normally devolved, but this is counted as “human rights”.
Sire but most of “the world” OS not in the US
Sorry I think we are misunderstanding each other. I was talking about the UK as this is a UK specific story and community. I assumed that you were talking about the constituent countries in the UK that have different laws in your previous comment.
May I ask how it is you got here? - I am curious seeing as you’re on a PieFed instance.
My bad. I only ever really browse the top / unfiltered feed, never by community. Fediverse is small enough that there’s only a few active communities and the content is fairly homogenous.
I’m from Australia and am used to explaining to Americans in the fediverse that other jurisdictions exist I guess.
Not sure what you mean about piefed? quokk.au is the dweeb fork of piefed I think?