4Anyone: Now Channel 4 has gender neutral toilets
Channel 4 has unveiled new gender-neutral toilets at its headquarters.
The broadcaster boasted on Twitter that the facilities are open to both men and women.
In case there is any confusion, each cubicle has a large symbol of an adult on the front, with one leg in a skirt and the other in trousers.
a slogan below it reads: ‘4anyone’. But while some might applaud Channel 4 for promoting gender equality, others have yet to be convinced. Many members of the public wrote online about their revulsion at the thought of using the same toilets as the opposite sex.
‘Blokes have nasty toilet habits so [it is] not fair [that] women have to put up with their nastiness,’ one wrote on Twitter.
another female viewer said: ‘I do not want to share toilets with men. Their hygiene in toilets is vile.’ however, a few argued that it is actually men who will be worse off – claiming that ‘ladies’ loos are the worst I’ve ever seen!’. Channel 4’s latest show of political correctness comes less than a month after its news anchor, Jon Snow, admitted that he and many of his cohorts are out of touch with public feeling.
The famously liberal journalist said he had ‘got it wrong’ on Brexit, and that he was ‘comfortably with the elite’.
not everyone was bothered by the new conveniences at Channel 4 head office, however. ‘a pot is a pot. as long as it has toilets, toilet roll, soap and a sink, who cares who uses it?’ one viewer wrote. Channel 4’s gender-neutral facilities do not feature urinals. Insiders stressed there is no ‘shared space’, and that the broadcaster still has separate facilities elsewhere.
a source also claimed that ‘most’ offices these days have unisex toilets. a spokesman said yesterday: ‘at Channel 4 we don’t put people in boxes, but we’re happy for them to use any cubicle they want.’
earlier this month, Bishop of llandaff high School in Cardiff unveiled its own unisex loos, which have seven cubicles and a communal sink.