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I have mixed feelings about this, can anyone comment? (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Description: a toilet door with a multigender symbol and a disabled symbol. Text below the symbols reads "Inclusive| Ira tāngata katoa".

For context, this is the disabled toilet in the main art gallery in my country's biggest city. There are the standard male toilet and female toilet right there as well.

Edit: sorry, image upload isn't working for me. Basically the one disabled toilet has been turned into an inclusive gender and disability toilet. I love it that there is a gender inclusive bathroom but I don't love it that they siloed it into the disability accessible toilet instead of renovating a new one or changing one of the 4 standard ones instead or as well.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It depends on the building. I'm in the UK, and a lot of our buildings are old, and have been updated over the years to add facilities. For example, if the toilets were installed before disabled toilets were a thing, fitting them in with the regular toilets would need a complete renovation. Adding a separate room still needs work, but maybe not as much.