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Do you know what is what?

Fri Oct 18, 2013 1:21 pm

Time to learn what each symbol means as it's going to have a snowball effect. I'd hate to see any of you having a weekend break in Brighton then need the gents then coming across these new toilets. If you find yourselves in any pub with these then you're probably in the wrong pub :thumbup:


University plans to build THREE types of toilet for men, women and transgender so that 'all students feel welcome' and the council think it's a great idea so expect this to spread to the city pubsImage



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Re: Do you know what is what?

Fri Oct 18, 2013 1:44 pm

What is this world coming to?,this has got to be a wind up?

Re: Do you know what is what?

Fri Oct 18, 2013 2:39 pm

caerblue wrote:What is this world coming to?,this has got to be a wind up?


I wish it was a wind up but the world has gone completely bonkers.

One of Britain's top universities could become the first in the country to install three types of toilet for men, women and transgenders.

The 'gender neutral' loos have been requested by the student union at the University of Sussex in Brighton, in a bid to make all students feel more welcome.

But some students have labelled the idea as 'stupid', saying the committee should be spending more time discussing other issues.

Students Union communications officer Imogen Adie said: 'It's an exciting piece of work. We want to break down barriers and make university a more welcoming place for everyone.

'I think the university are really open to it. The University of Sussex is a really open community and we want people to know that. We want to make people's experience of university as easy as possible.

We are working towards forming the first university trans-student policy and we need your help.

'To ask trans-people which identity they fit into can be painful, and yet when we have gendered toilets we ask them to do this every day.

'We'd like the university to provide more gender neutral toilets alongside single gender toilets so that all of our students are comfortable and safe on campus.'

But one third-year history student, said: 'It's stupid. Haven't the bleeding-heart brigade at the SU got anything better to discuss?

'While they're at it, why don't they build a toilet for midgets? :lol:

The student's union has also posted on Facebook, asking people to air opinions on what sort of sign they would prefer to be used.

A post on the page said: 'Some of the people on the University committee that will decide this are aware that some international students might have encountered different toilet provision at home and would like to ensure that toilets are instantly recognizable.'

A University of Sussex spokeswoman said: 'The subject has been raised by the Students' Union and the university is in discussion about it.'

In 2009, Staffordshire University introduced the first dedicated sets of transgender toilets in the country in their student night club after the idea was debated by their student council.

Re: Do you know what is what?

Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:00 pm

How does segregating a minority come across as an advancement in terms of societal integration? Im sure in history this bridge has been crossed before. Oh wait it has, with Rosa Parks and black people being segregated on buses in the USA. Shocking how people never learn from history.

Re: Do you know what is what?

Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:03 pm

JBCCFC1927 wrote:How does segregating a minority come across as an advancement in terms of societal integration? Im sure in history this bridge has been crossed before. Oh wait it has, with Rosa Parks and black people being segregated on buses in the USA. Shocking how people never learn from history.


Exactly what I was thinking. They're showing they don't discriminate against transgender people by telling them to use a separate toilet to everyone else??????

Re: Do you know what is what?

Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:37 pm

ianmackay88 wrote:
JBCCFC1927 wrote:How does segregating a minority come across as an advancement in terms of societal integration? Im sure in history this bridge has been crossed before. Oh wait it has, with Rosa Parks and black people being segregated on buses in the USA. Shocking how people never learn from history.


Exactly what I was thinking. They're showing they don't discriminate against transgender people by telling them to use a separate toilet to everyone else??????

It will just create problems,can u imagine these toilets being in a pub,the place is packed,and someone comes out of one,Jesus what problems would he have

Re: Do you know what is what?

Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:48 pm

ianmackay88 wrote:
JBCCFC1927 wrote:How does segregating a minority come across as an advancement in terms of societal integration? Im sure in history this bridge has been crossed before. Oh wait it has, with Rosa Parks and black people being segregated on buses in the USA. Shocking how people never learn from history.


Exactly what I was thinking. They're showing they don't discriminate against transgender people by telling them to use a separate toilet to everyone else??????


I hadn't thought about it in that way but you are totally right and I expect these numpties haven't thought for one second that it's discrimination as that's how I see it.