Women queue up to condemn arts centre’s unisex lavatories

Apr 6, 2017 by

by Kaya Burgess, The Times:

The renaming of the male and female lavatories at the Barbican Centre as gender-neutral has brought complaints that women now have to queue even longer.

Signs outside one of the venue’s cinema screens have been changed to say “gender-neutral with urinals” and “gender-neutral with cubicles”.

Samira Ahmed, a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, launched a tirade at the Barbican on Twitter, saying: “Women’s loo labelled ‘gender neutral’ so full of men who also have a ‘urinal’ to themselves. Totally ridiculous.”

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