LADIES SHUN UNISEX MOD LOOS
Cash-strapped defence chiefs spent almost £15,000 on “genderneutral” toilets – but female staff are refusing to use them because they are “too smelly”.
Top brass transformed 13 singlesex lavatories into mixed loos at the MOD in Whitehall.
Male and female signs were replaced with the word toilet,
COMIC Dawn French looks less than happy on a dawn walk in the rain with her dog.
The Vicar of Dibley star, 62, wore a pink coat with the hood up on the stroll near her £3million home in Fowey, Cornwall.
No doubt her thoughts were also clouded by the court case facing daughter Billie Henry, 28, whom she and ex-husband Sir Lenny Henry adopted as a baby.
Billie denies a charge of harassing her former boyfriend.
Dawn Drench
while sanitary towel dispensers and bins were installed.
The cost was revealed under Freedom of Information laws.
A female civil servant working at the HQ said last night: “I don’t go anywhere near the new genderneutral loos as they’re too smelly.
“None of my female colleagues feel comfortable using them.
“There was nothing wrong with the old toilets. Not one person ever complained. I don’t want to hear a man going to the toilet and
I don’t want to make eye contact with him after I have been there.
“I doubt very much you could find a single person in the MOD who feels this policy is sensible. Everyone knows how strapped for cash the department is. Creating gender-neutral toilets is just daft.”
Colonel Richard Kemp, former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, said: “It’s shocking that the Army is being dragged into political correctness.
“Given how stretched and how busy our forces are, it is surprising someone has time to worry about this sort of thing.”
The Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “Creating gender-neutral toilets no one wants to use is flushing public money down the drain.
“Instead of frittering away cash for right-on nonsense, officials should focus on putting every penny into frontline services.”
The MOD said: “As a modern and inclusive employer, we provide a range of facilities for staff.”