NUI Galway Gender Neutral Toilets ...

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 9:53pm #1

so NUI Galway has Gender neutral Bathrooms now :rolleyes:

mikhail · 11-09-2018 9:54pm

If it's a single stall, who gives a **** what gender the two students riding inside it are?

coffee_cake · 11-09-2018 9:54pm

We all have gender neutral bathrooms. In our houses. And many's a small cafe.

Donnielighto · 11-09-2018 9:55pm

Should just say toilet.

I like that being in a wheelchair is a gender too ðŸ˜‚

eviltwin · 11-09-2018 9:56pm

We have gender neutral toilets at work, never been a problem.

Odhinn · 11-09-2018 9:57pm

Donnielighto wrote: »

Should just say toilet.

I like that being in a wheelchair is a gender too &#55357;&#56834;

Thats not a wheel chair, its a person with a huge ass.

Ipso · 11-09-2018 9:58pm

They're handy, when the turtle is poking his head out I don't care where I go.

Anyway, weren't these types of toilets a bit popular in the late 90's and early 2000's when Ally McBeal was on (minus the smug, look at me I'm changing the world types)?

JohnnyFlash · 11-09-2018 9:59pm

Very handy for doing a line of coke in. Great idea.

JohnCleary · 11-09-2018 10:02pm

That's actually the Gym, not the Uni (granted, the Gym is on campus). It's also the disabled toilet on the ground floor, so it's a single cubicle with a toilet & shower so there'll be no small talk at the sinks.

They've had gender neutral / whatever toilets on campus since last year, IIRC. Basically, they turn the disabled toilet into this gender neutral / whatever toilet.

Will mainly benefit lazy b4stards, given that they can now use the disabled toilet :pac:

When I think 'gender neutral', it brings me back to backpacking in SE Asia... now that was proper gender neutral. You'd be standing at a urinal, next thing this stunning young one would walk in. It got really weird when she'd stand at the urinal next to you and pull out her lad :eek: Fairly tame in Ireland, tbh

Panthro · 11-09-2018 10:04pm

That's multi-gender.
Be handier if it just said W/C or Toilet.
Or a cartoon picture of a devilish toilet grinning and a frightened loo roll resisting a flush.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 11-09-2018 10:04pm

It's far from a new concept. An hotel restaurant here has had them for many years. It's no big deal.

Mint Sauce · 11-09-2018 10:05pm

Bloody hell. I used these toilets way back in the early noughties in many a night club. They were called unisex toilets.

Panthro · 11-09-2018 10:06pm

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Bloody hell. I used these toilets way back in the early noughties in many a night club. They were called unisex toilets.

Hah, unisex toilet in a University.
I see what you did there.
This guyyyy!

Star Bingo · 11-09-2018 10:08pm

Now if they could just neutralise that odour.

Mr. CooL ICE · 11-09-2018 10:15pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

so NUI Galway has Gender neutral Bathrooms now :rolleyes:

Bet Woodie's in Carrick on Shannon has one too

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 10:22pm

so, have they whipped out the disabled toilets and put in gender neutral ones or used the disabled toilets as gender neutral ones or what, its a bit sketchy - if so what happens if a disabled person wants to use the bog and a gender neutral person is sin there?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/row-over-change-of-nui-galway-disabled-toilets-to-transgender-ones-1.3205988

JohnCleary · 11-09-2018 10:24pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

so, have they whipped out the disabled toilets and put in gender neutral ones or used the disabled toilets as gender neutral ones or what, its a bit sketchy - if so what happens if a disabled person wants to use the bog and a gender neutral person is sin there?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/row-over-change-of-nui-galway-disabled-toilets-to-transgender-ones-1.3205988

They wait, just like anyone else would if they went into any toilet and it was occupied.

Noveight · 11-09-2018 10:25pm

NUIG is a hotbed for that crowd. Unsurprising that they're pandering to them.

freshpopcorn · 11-09-2018 10:27pm

I've no issue with gender neutral toilets.
I would like standard male/female toilets to remain also.
Some people simply don't feel comfortable going to the toilet with the opposite sex.
My other condition would be that if a business/etc wants to provide them they install them and not just slap a sticker on the accessibility toilet door.
Personally, I'd go to the toilet anywhere. Lots of public/supermarket toilets are shared single toilet.
If I had the choice tough when building a public facility.
I'd install male,female,gender neutral, asseciablity and larger ones for families when needed.
In a busy shopping centre /club I like being a guy. You head in do your business, wash your hands and leave. No waiting around compared to the women's toilets.

ethical · 11-09-2018 10:33pm

How long before someone defaces it to read:seomra feistis do chac.......which means room for a sh1t!

andekwarhola · 11-09-2018 10:36pm

As long as i can dispatch a log in there between lectures, I don't give a fcuk if it's designated as Martian-friendly.

Sonics2k · 11-09-2018 10:39pm

One of the office buildings in my company has these spread around, as well as separated bathrooms too.

Works well, and never any complaints in like 10 years.

Bet this whole thread kinda backfired for you OP.

freshpopcorn · 11-09-2018 10:47pm

By the way Andy how many of these toilets would you like to see in Tesco?

topper75 · 11-09-2018 11:18pm

All white characters on the sign? could we be more unwelcoming?
My heart bleeds.

NIMAN · 11-09-2018 11:19pm

Are these not unisex?

Whats the difference?

Jimmy. · 11-09-2018 11:20pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

As long as i can dispatch a log in there between lectures, I don't give a fcuk if it's designated as Martian-friendly.

You will need to rejig your bowel movements for the real world. Taking a crap in the middle of a work day will get you fired.

Heres Johnny · 11-09-2018 11:24pm

That's just a toilet for everyone. Which is fine. Everyone uses toilets.

When they start with toilets especially for gender neutral students then they've pandered to the lunatics

Mod-Banned

Andy From Sligo · 11-09-2018 11:24pm

Sonics2k wrote: »

One of the office buildings in my company has these spread around, as well as separated bathrooms too.

Works well, and never any complaints in like 10 years.

Bet this whole thread kinda backfired for you OP.

yeah - you've nearly all let me down

I was waiting for the "pandering under pressure to niche groups" and "this is where it starts... where will it all end?" comments

.... and it never happened

normanoffside · 11-09-2018 11:25pm

Why does it say restroom? Is it where you go for a sleep?

Infini · 11-09-2018 11:25pm

Ugh you know I really think they're total idiot's with this whole approach to this. All they need to do is have a normal bathroom, no gender or anything its JUST A TOILET. Noone is "excluded" if noone give a shít to begin with.

Bloody "identity" politics, sure lads lets highlight all the different group's so we can piss everyone off instead of making difference's irrelevant.

Paddy Cow · 11-09-2018 11:30pm

I was in NUIG last year and I can tell you why there's a small picture of the door - it's because basically there's this one little toilet in the corridor that anyone can use and it's no big deal. It's actually a massive help. It's tiny so there's no big queues. It's a tiny cubicle that hardly anyone knows about. I only wish there was more of them.

NUI Galway Gender Neutral Toilets ...

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