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Mex@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago

Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England

www.theguardian.com

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Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England

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Mex@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago
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Ministers say move will combat growing concerns about ‘privacy and dignity’ in gender-neutral facilities
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    Wait what if the building is a small shop that has a singular room with a toilet and sink in it? The little bookstore near my house only has 1 water closet. Those type of stores will be illegal to build from now on?

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      That would be a ‘universal’ toilet and thus allowed.

      According to ministers, 81% agreed with the intention for separate single-sex toilet facilities in a consultation on the proposals, while 82% also agreed with the intention to provide “universal” toilets – a self-contained, and a fully enclosed toilet room with a wash hand basin for individual use – where space allows.

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        God these people are fucking stupid.

        That’s a gender neutral bathroom.

        It doesn’t mean there’s a stripper pole and a doctor handing out hormones.

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          The thing they’re against is communal handwashing apparently.

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            Well…that’s where it starts.

            /s

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              First comes hand washing, next comes gender recognition, next comes TRANSVESTITE BABIES in baby carriages!!!

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            This honestly feels like a bit at this point

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          Wait, your bathrooms don’t have a doctor handing out shots hanging around in the corner?

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            Wait, your bathrooms don’t have stripper poles?

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              It’s unsanitary. Don’t want nothin spreading. My kitchens though, let’s just say my lasagna ain’t the only thing cooking in there.

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        What boggles me is that the latter “universal toilet” is what most conservatives ferociously battled when it is called a “gender neutral bathroom”, like disabled bathrooms and residential ones. Face=palm.

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      Anything less would interfere with dignity nia-smug

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        honk whose dignity

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