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By the way, in the past more men transitioned into women than vice versa, but in recent years the numbers are about equal.

Why should someone born female get to avail herself of all the perks we men get? Why should she (he?) get to earn more money for the same job than a woman who hasn't transitioned? Why should she get to join men-only country clubs? This is the kind of thing that makes the trans rights movement so horrible. We want to maintain our white male priveleges!

If you don't like it then you are free to complain about it, organise protests. No one's stopping you. Do you expect women to do it for you? I've seen some gay men complaining about women in manface on gay dating apps. That's it as far as I'm aware. Now that the law's been clarified gay men will be able to exclude them from those apps, so you will be safe once again sweetie.

Which perks are women in manface getting? Beating men up in men's sports? Using their nasty toilets and changing rooms? Getting sexually aroused sticking their hands up smelly male anuses? Organise some protests then you poor thing.

pssst. They are welcome in women's spaces because they ARE women.

Are you going to tell Maia, a woman, that she should 'suck it up' and put up with men in her changing rooms, or leave her job that she loves?

Maia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:16 am This is a very welcome, and actually quite surprising decision, given recent trends. It seems like hardly a month goes by without their being some rumour at work about them trying to make the changing rooms unisex, or the bathrooms, or staff uniforms, or whatever. Since it's a leisure centre, this is a very important issue, with regard to changing rooms, and so on, and the explicit reason for doing all this is to accommodate the trans lobby. We had to go on strike a few years ago over this very issue, but there was no clear resolution. Hopefully this will now put a stop to the whole thing, but we shouldn't underestimate the backlash. As I've made it clear to them, many times, having men in our changing rooms and bathrooms would be a bridge too far, for me, and I would have to resign, very regretfully.

Unfortunately businesses could simply get rid of all separation of the sexes and just have unisex everything. Ironically these fetishistic predators won't like that. It's the being in exclusively female spaces that they get off on. They know how intimidating it is to women and that's all part of the thrill.

Since men like Alexiev think it's so 'trivial', then why so much fuss and teeth gnashing from great thunking men, enraged to the point of apoplexy at the thought of being denied that which they feel they are ENTITLED to? Isn't that just a teensy bit of a red flag?

accelafine wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:51 pm

Maia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:16 am This is a very welcome, and actually quite surprising decision, given recent trends. It seems like hardly a month goes by without their being some rumour at work about them trying to make the changing rooms unisex, or the bathrooms, or staff uniforms, or whatever. Since it's a leisure centre, this is a very important issue, with regard to changing rooms, and so on, and the explicit reason for doing all this is to accommodate the trans lobby. We had to go on strike a few years ago over this very issue, but there was no clear resolution. Hopefully this will now put a stop to the whole thing, but we shouldn't underestimate the backlash. As I've made it clear to them, many times, having men in our changing rooms and bathrooms would be a bridge too far, for me, and I would have to resign, very regretfully.

Unfortunately businesses could simply get rid of all separation of the sexes and just have unisex everything. Ironically these fetishistic predators won't like that. It's the being in exclusively female spaces that they get off on. They know how intimidating it is to women and that's all part of the thrill.

I think they would lose a lot of custom, if they tried that. Certainly from women, anyway. Presumably that's one of the reasons why they haven't done it yet at the leisure centre.

Gee, I wonder if those great thunking men who claim that they would be 'unsafe' in men's toilets and changing rooms (women feeling unsafe and intimidated around THEM doesn't matter of course) will feel 'unsafe' in unisex ones? I'm guessing 'no'...

accelafine wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:24 pm

Are you going to tell Maia, a woman, that she should 'suck it up' and put up with men in her changing rooms, or leave her job that she loves?

I wasn't going to bother, but since you ask those seem to be her only choices. So, yes.

What's so horrible about co-ed changing rooms?

Alexiev wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 9:21 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:24 pm

Are you going to tell Maia, a woman, that she should 'suck it up' and put up with men in her changing rooms, or leave her job that she loves?

I wasn't going to bother, but since you ask those seem to be her only choices. So, yes.

What's so horrible about co-ed changing rooms?

A loss of privacy and dignity.

Maia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:03 pm

Alexiev wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 9:21 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:24 pm

Are you going to tell Maia, a woman, that she should 'suck it up' and put up with men in her changing rooms, or leave her job that she loves?

I wasn't going to bother, but since you ask those seem to be her only choices. So, yes.

What's so horrible about co-ed changing rooms?

A loss of privacy and dignity.

Privacy, yes (although that is also lost in single sex dressing rooms). Dignity, no (in my opinion).:

accelafine wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:11 am ''I’ve found my soundtrack for spring: the caterwauling of fellas in dresses following yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. It’s delicious. They’re raging about the ‘fascism’ of no longer being allowed to get their knobs out in the women’s changing room. They’re agonising over where they’re supposed to take a shit now. Their Adam’s apples are getting a mighty fine workout as they wail into the void about being ‘erased’ by ‘transphobes’. It’s the sound of men being stripped of their entitlements by women who’ve had enough of their crap, and I am so here for it.

No sooner had the Supreme Court said what even the Neanderthals knew – that men are men and women are women – than these blokes were fuming. First out of the traps was thin-lipped loon India Willoughby. He branded the court’s decision ‘evil’. Yes, it is apparently wicked and immoral to say that if you have a todger you’re a fella. Willoughby spent the day furiously doubling down on his delusions of womanhood. ‘I have always been a woman’, he said. Tell that to the jizz you sired your kid with.

It’s a ‘grim day’, they cry. The ruling threatens trans people’s ‘safety’, they say. That’s big talk from a movement that expects female prisoners to live cheek by jowl with rapists and girls to share changing rooms with hulking blokes in ill-fitting bikinis. There are dark mutterings about ‘fascism’. Munroe Bergdorf shared a post saying: ‘There is no trans debate. There are trans people and there are fascists who wish to dominate and eliminate trans people.’ Dude, it’s not fascism to say women should be free to seek rape counselling without fearing there’ll be a weirdo in a boob tube listening in.

Imagine the colossal levels of self-regard it must require to think it’s ‘fascism’ when you’re politely asked to use the right loo. It’s amazing how many of these ‘literal women’ sound like entitled men. Slandering TERFs as ‘fascists’ has been all the rage for ages, of course. Professor of gibberish Judith Butler calls gender-critical feminism ‘one of the dominant strains of fascism in our time’. It used to be alt-right wankers who called feminists ‘feminazis’. Now it’s nonbinary wankers. Two cheeks of the same arse.

Trans folk are hilariously cosplaying as civil-rights activists. The Supreme Court ruling is ‘very bleak’ but ‘we will carry on’, said Shon Faye, as if his march into women-only spaces were akin to MLK’s march on Selma. There are dire warnings about the ‘elimination’ of ‘transwomen’. Fellas, listen: no one’s saying you can’t exist. We’re just saying you can’t exist in women-only spaces. You can wear women’s clothing if you like – you just can’t take it off in front of actual women who’d rather not see your moobs and balls. It’s not complicated. It’s certainly not fascism.

There’s been the usual shite. One trans ally sneered at ‘the little ladies… nervously clutching their handbags [and] fumbling for their pearl necklaces’ over the prospect of seeing one of those ‘terrifying creatures with… a PENIS’. Yeah, you daft bints, why won’t you obediently behold the estrogen-shrivelled cock of every deluded man who intrudes into your spaces? I’m old enough to remember when we called this ‘flashing’ – now we’re meant to call it ‘trans rights’.

Some of the angry fellas say they intend to carry on going into women-only areas. ‘You will never stop me accessing female spaces. It is my right to use them’, says one. Not anymore it isn’t, you p****. Trans activist Charlie Craggs says it’s terrible that he’ll now be expected to ‘use men’s spaces’
alongside ‘predatory men’. How can TERFs sleep at night, he says, knowing ‘they’re sending transwomen into bathrooms with predatory men’. What depthless gall. The men who demanded that women throw open their changing rooms, refuges, swimming pools and sports to any bloke who fancied waltzing in are now blubbing that they’ll have to share spaces with those very same blokes. Honestly, what these people lack in XX chromosomes they more than make up for with brass neck.

Then, best of all, came ‘the allies’. Is there anything funnier than a fiftysomething public-school arse trying to stay relevant by saying ‘transwomen are women’? Barrister Jolyon Maugham – famous for killing foxes and losing cases – declared in his haughty headmaster’s drawl that the court’s ruling is ‘profoundly unfair’. LBC knob jockey James O’Brien asked TERFs how they feel being on the same side as Donald Trump on the trans issue. I don’t know, James, I think I’m happier being on the side of Trump than on the side of a movement that mutilates young lesbians, calls women cunts and puts rapists in women’s jails so they can rape more women.

It’s been a 24-hour temper tantrum, the hissy fit heard round the world. And I’m loving it. For while this noisy orgy of self-pity might doll itself up as a cry for civil rights, in truth it’s the death rattle of trans activism’s neo-misogyny. They know the jig is up, or very nearly up. They know the days are over when people with penises could say ‘I’m a woman!’ and get a nod of approval rather than a one-way ticket to the nuthouse. The sight of angry men bashing their keyboards in fury at the uppity bitches who went to the Supreme Court has exposed the truth about the trans lobby – it’s a men’s rights movement in drag.

The real reason they’re enraged about being booted out of women’s spaces is because they think the whole world should revolve around their made-up identities. They expect women to be the passive validators of their delusions, to bow, compliantly, to their presence in women’s spaces and their insistence on being women. When women withdraw their consent from this post-truth shitshow and say ‘NO’, the lie of their identity starts to crumble. That’s why men are angry – because women are revolting. It’s a story as old as time.

Brendan O’Neill is spiked’s chief political writer and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. ''

Okay, just as I am curious as to what might be the fate of Jews, feminists, homosexuals and people of color were those like AJ and Satyr to ever acquire political power in any particular community, I'm curious regarding what might be the fate of "trans men to women" were she to acquire the actual capacity to enforce her own political prejudices.

Shame them for starters? And if that doesn't work?

Then the part where "boys don't cry".

Start here for example: https://glaad.org/elliot-page-oscar-nom ... ansgender/

Alexiev wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:39 pm

Maia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:03 pm

Alexiev wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 9:21 pm

I wasn't going to bother, but since you ask those seem to be her only choices. So, yes.

What's so horrible about co-ed changing rooms?

A loss of privacy and dignity.

Privacy, yes (although that is also lost in single sex dressing rooms). Dignity, no (in my opinion).:

You're welcome to your opinion, of course, but you have no right to force it on others.

iambiguous wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:42 pm

I have no idea who or what you are talking about, as usual. You are insane. Be a good lad and go away since you have nothing to offer here.

Alexiev wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:39 pm

Maia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:03 pm

Alexiev wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 9:21 pm

I wasn't going to bother, but since you ask those seem to be her only choices. So, yes.

What's so horrible about co-ed changing rooms?

A loss of privacy and dignity.

Privacy, yes (although that is also lost in single sex dressing rooms). Dignity, no (in my opinion).:

Women aren't obliged to justify anything to you. Take it up with the Equality Act if you have a problem with it.

accelafine wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 11:06 pm

iambiguous wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:42 pm

I have no idea who or what you are talking about, as usual. You are insane. Be a good lad and go away since you have nothing to offer here.

Does anyone here actually believe this? And, come on, really, what are the odds that even she does?

Maybe if she reads it again...

Okay, just as I am curious as to what might be the fate of Jews, feminists, homosexuals and people of color were those like AJ and Satyr to ever acquire political power in any particular community, I'm curious regarding what might be the fate of "trans men to women" were she to acquire the actual capacity to enforce her own political prejudices.

Shame them for starters? And if that doesn't work?

Then the part where "boys don't cry".

Start here for example: https://glaad.org/elliot-page-oscar-nom ... ansgender/

Separate changing rooms and toilets have been hard won, BY WOMEN. They didn't just appear by magic. Women have every right to expect to be able use women's facilities without having to worry that there will be thunking great perverts in there. And if that 'never happens' then what are all those men 'protesting' about?? No more 'loo leash'.

''Women’s rights and the “loo leash”: the fight for public toilets in the UK
CategoryNews DateWednesday 13 July 2022
This blog is by Grace Phiri a PhD Researcher at the University of Leeds.

Introduction

Until the 1820s all over Europe urination and defaecation often took place in public places such as fields, gardens, and also in the streets. During the mid-19th century (1830-1860), Victorian social reformers championing debates on public health and the promotion of modern sewage systems brought urination and defaecation to a private room inside the house away from the public eye (Law et al., 1999). The growth of public toilets in urban spaces from the 1850s was closely linked to rapid urbanisation and the development of modern sewage systems in the British Empire. London was at the centre of this development influencing the development of model cities based on British style sewage, plumbing and water closets in Europe and the colonies (Greed, C., 2007). With the expansion of water closets came a cultural shift where bodily functions moved from the Victorian era of carrying out basic acts such as relieving one-self in public to private domains in the house and in public toilets.

The ideology regarding the separation of sexes in public toilet provision started in the Victorian era as manifested in the provision of urinals and public toilets for men and not for women (Ramster et al., 2018). The lack of potty parity signified male dominance in public spaces which remained unchallenged for a long time. Municipal public toilets for women were scarce in British urban spaces during the nineteenth century (Greed, C., 2007). Women in the middle and upper social classes had access to public facilities in restaurants and departmental stores when out and about. In Central London, some private companies and women’s associations offered some privately-run public toilets covering a range of needs including a private room for socialising for a fee (Penner, 2001; Cooper et al., 2000). Unfortunately, these facilities where not available to all women due to social class exclusion, location, and affordability.

The absence of public toilets for women in the cities and workplaces limited women’s access to public spaces. The control of women by not providing public toilets was referred as the “loo leash”, meaning women were tied to the home or to places where they had access to the toilet if needed (Greed, 2019).Women's subordination has historically been socialised with the relegation of women to domestic roles in the private sphere of the home excluding them from public spaces (Jeffreys, 2014). This meant that women were disadvantaged in their ability to find work, go shopping or use public social spaces. During her reign Queen Victoria (1837-1901) is rumoured to have supported the idea that women need to go when they felt the urge; “ one should always avail oneself of the opportunity if it presents itself” (Penner, 2001). The “loo leash” affected poor lower class women more than the middle and upper class as the latter could afford to pay in private public toilets and shop in departmental shops with toilets. Partly public toilets were provided to maintain social harmony and to improve the lives of the less fortunate lower class. However, class distinction was still maintained by the differences in quality and charges of public toilets (Crook, 2006). The provision of public toilets did not erase the society’s views that women using the public toilets were viewed as none other than prostitutes and therefore the provision of public toilets was seen as a threat to the decency of women at a time when unaccompanied women in the streets of London were scorned. It seems in the Victorian era a woman’s morality was much more important than their physical needs.


In Victorian times a woman’s role was associated with domestic life of tending the family and caring for the home. The few women who left the home to feminine jobs such as teaching, dressmaking or looking after the middle and upper class households were not allowed to participate in public spaces and they had to be accompanied by a male to avoid being labelled a prostitute(Penner, 2001). These working women were not allowed to visit pubs or coffee houses. Public spaces and workplaces remained very much male dominated booming with male oriented institutions such as politics, banking and male culture entertainment (Penner, 2001). Changes emerged in the 19th century with the growth of cities and the movement of middle-upper classes into the suburbs demanding more participation of women in work places and public spaces.

Cutting the “loo leash”

The 1850s saw the emergence of women rights groups (Law et al., 1999; Greed, C.H., 1996) fighting for sanitation and the provision of public toilets for women as minimum conditions for women to participate a full social life without being subjected to the “loo leash”. The campaign was difficult facing opposition from men who felt threatened by the inclusion of women in public spaces or “their spaces”.

In the UK the increase in public toilets was associated with the success of the flush toilet and the Great London Exhibition of 1851 (Jaglarz, 2014). Originally the Great London Exhibition only provided public toilets for men, women’s toilets were added later. Throughout the 19th century potty parity imbalances continued, a good example is the 1900 Leicester square public toilets which were built with 40 cubicles/urinals for men and only 10 for women (Loobery, 2009).

In the nineteenth century shops started to develop the commercial understanding that women would spend more money shopping in city spaces if they could spend more time from home but there was no space for respectable women to sit away from the proximity of men and alcohol (Montgomery, 1997). Women shoppers had a physical and social challenge presented with several hours of shopping, walking considerable distances and no places to sit down and rest as it was of course unacceptable to enter most restaurants or bars as they served alcohol, and the coffee houses mainly catered for working men and usually located away from the shopping areas. Realising the power of wealthy women shoppers by the 1890s, respectable fashionable cafés and tea rooms emerged within shopping spaces in city centres and in department stores themselves serving non- alcoholic drinks segregated from the main restaurants serving men alcohol and tobacco (Rains, 2022). These cafés and tea rooms provide the first private spaces in which women could respectably sit freely in public enhancing their shopping experiences, they also provided the important public toilets and powder rooms specifically for women. Departmental stores used bargain basements which catered for poor working class customers to separate the socioeconomic classes and the use of the public toilets protecting their middle and upper-class clientele (Banks, 2019). These public toilets were also not available to all women as these privately owned businesses were only catering for their middle- and upper-class patrons

After the commissioning of the first flashing public toilet in 1851 during the GREAT LONDON EXHIBITION the Ladies Sanitary Association (LSA) was formed to spearhead the campaign for women’s rights to sanitation among other things, it was strongly backed by Dr Stevenson (male) who was the medical officer for Paddington, he declared that women had the same “physical necessities" as men and therefore female public toilets were a necessity rather than luxury (Foard, 1902). He pointed out that the lack of public toilets was not only affecting women’s health but also their enjoyment of public spaces detailing the extent to which the call of nature cannot be controlled by all humans let alone women. The LSA used pamphlets, lectures and public talks as mediums for their campaign. They succeeded in having a few women’s public toilets opened around the UK but progress was slow (Hepplewhite, 1996). A second group called the Union of Women’s Liberal and Radical Associations (UWLRA) emerged around the late 1890s. It campaigned for working class women to have public toilets, in Camden in 1898 the members wrote to The Vestry in Camden for a women’s toilets next to the existing men’s toilet (Ramster et al., 2018). Men opposed the women’s toilets being situated next to the men, and when a model toilet for women was built on Camden High street cab drivers deliberately ran into it to prove that its location was not suitable (Jeffreys, 2014), it took several years before a women’s toilets was allowed which was a victory for the women of Camden who could now access the high street at leisure.

The public Health Act (London) 1891 delegated local authorities the duty to provide and maintain public toilets, however, the first public toilet for women appeared in 1893 opposite the Royal Court of Justice in the Strand (London) (Menzies, 1928; Cavanagh and Ware, 1990). The majority of public toilet in London most of them underground were built between 1894-1925 however, it was reported that women were reluctant to use the facilities due the stigma and modesty among women (Cavanagh and Ware, 1990).

The countrywide campaigns for the provision of women’s toilets paid off and the provision of women’s public toilets started being taken seriously, with public toilets for women opening even outside London (see figure 2).

Bankhill Toilets
Figure 2 The Bankhill Ladies Public Convenience in Berwick-upon-Tweed opened in March 1899 (Menuge and Dewar, 2015)

The Bankhill ladies public toilet was used 62 times on its opening day in 1899 (Hepplewhite, 1996) showing that women needed public toilets to move freely away from home.

Improved public toilet facilities for women was slow with women’s facilities appearing in theatres, shops and railway stations throughout the country. Hull city council posted a notice on Monday 15 March 1926 to build new public toilets servicing both men and women replacing the male only facilities near the Victoria Pier in Nelson Street (Spending a Penny: an Exploration of England's Public Toilets, 2022).

During the First World War nearly a million women worked in munition factories to support the war effort. As women entered previously male-dominated professions and began to participate in city life, they began to campaign for the provision of facilities such as changing rooms and toilets specifically for women in public spaces. The London based departmental store Selfridges provided its first female toilet in 1909 when the shop opened allowing members of the Suffragette movement to use them while campaigning. While the First World War marked an increase in the number of public toilets for women other forms of exclusion such as race, disabilities and economic class began to appear and these would take other campaigns to highlight. Some employers were reluctant to install women’s toilets after the war as they believed that women were taking men’s employment(Wright, 2010). It took until 1992 for the Workplace Regulation 1992 to become effective making it a legal requirement for employers to provide separate facilities for men and women (Kainer, 2009; Wright, 2010).

In a report presented by the Medical Officer of Health to the London County Council in 1928 the inadequate provision of public toilets for women was highlighted (Menzies, 1928). They presented that London had 233 public toilets for men compared to 184 for women and further calculated the usable facilities as 1,260 cubicles plus 2,610 urinal stalls for men, compared to only 876 cubicles for women. They also pointed out that men had extra urinals provided by public houses (Cavanagh and Ware, 1990). The report highlighted the changes in women’s lifestyles such as more women going to work, increased shopping facilitated by improved rail and road transport systems, and the increased amount of entertainment such as the cinema, theatre and open air bands. Women were generally spending more time away from home increasing the demand for public toilets. The loss of the LSA around the early 1900s meant that women did not have a voice advocating for them. Section 87 of the Public Health Act 1936 stated that local authorities may provide public toilets proper and convenient locations (Cavanagh and Ware, 1990). By using the word ‘may' in the Act the importance of the obligation was diminished and therefore some authorities provided good facilities while others provided poor facilities.

Conclusion

The importance of accessible public toilets in public spaces is often down played, in the UK there is no current law fact there is currently no law which legally obligates local authorities to provide public toilets(Greed, C., 2007). Public toilet availability in convenient spaces has implications for public health, economic development, social mobility, public transport systems and city sustainability. For the government to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 with promotion of people using public transport, cycling and walking, the existence of adequate public toilets for everyone are essential to support these systems

The relationship between women’s human rights and public toilet provision has been examined in recent studies, Greed, C.H. (1996) arguing from a planning point of view states that women’s public toilets are essential infrastructure and therefore should be in place to allow women free accessibility into cities and urban spaces. From a feminist legal point of view it is argued that lack of public toilets for women reinforces the idea that women are alien, unwelcome and unconsidered in cities and urban spaces, and they were being treated as unequal citizens (Daley, 2000). The challenges for women equality remain, mostly talked about with little change, women earn less, are more likely to be burdened by domestic chores, have greater responsibility in physical childcare and are more likely to use public transport or walk (Beebeejaun, 2017). The right to everyday life built up from these ordinary practices and life experiences compounded by the existing inadequate public toilets in urban spaces still pose challenges to women navigating public spaces today.

Public toilets provide a private space where women have the freedom to think, to cry, to fix their makeup, to gossip with a friend or strangers or just a space to escape the busy streets as well as the most obvious needs. Public toilets are important for women as they generally urinate more regularly, they menstruate, they are less likely to urinate out in the open, they may be pregnant and they are more likely to care for children or the elderly while in public. Studies have concluded that women require more time on the toilet than averaging 90 seconds for women to 60 seconds for men (Ramster et al., 2018), not forgetting women clothing are a complex issue on their own. Time consuming factors relating to women such as menstruation, anatomical differences and complex clothing lead to long queues in women’s public toilets compared to men’s. The UK is yet to respond despite recommendations from the British Toilet Association that there should be as many female toilets as there are toilet cubicles and urinals for men (Ramster et al., 2018).

Despite the additional needs public toilet provision in the UK still favours men. A research by Ghent University determined that using the same amount floor plan men get 20-30% more by using a combination of urinals and cubicles compared to cubicles only for women (Greed, C., 2007). This means that the ratio of toilet provision is 2:1 in favour of men with women’s cubicles not big enough to accommodate women with children or assisting other adults with toileting needs (Ramster et al., 2018; Greed, C., 2007). Most public toilets do not meet women’s needs who are faced with social dilemmas of how best they can modify their behaviours to successfully navigate public spaces. Women’s fight for public toilets has close associations to women’s fight for equality, while the provision has improved potty parity is far from being achieved. The improved provision of public toilets for women has increased the participation of women in public places although this is under threat from the current decline of public toilet. The toilet that women fought for so long have fallen into disuse, some have been sold off and converted into cafes, bars, hair saloon or other uses. Once again the increased risk of people staying at home due to inadequate public toilets facilities, the “loo leash” rearing its ugly head again this time not only on women but across the population. The most affected by this reduction in public toilets being the homeless, outdoor workers, disabled people and those with illnesses that require frequent public toilet use.''