growstuff
Galaxy
You either provide fully enclosed cubicles with a sink or you provide single sex toilets and gender neutral. Then people who are happy using gender neutral do so. Many places offer this solution.
I must admit I've not noticed many gender neutral toilets. I'll have to keep an eye open for them in future.
There are some in my place of work. They used to be the Ladies'. The Gents' remains the same (presumably because of the urinals) and the old Ladies, which already included the disabled loo is now GN. Not only that, but it is right by the main door to the building, so a lot of men don't bother to walk down the corridor to the Gents', and sometimes people getting caught short on the way from one building to another use them too.
There are four cubicles to serve all the women and disabled people (both staff and students) on the ground floor, as well as passers by, the very occasional transperson and and the only other Ladies' loo is what used to be staff ones on the third floor (there is a Gents' on every floor). The ex-staff ones consist of two cubicles and a sink, and appear to have been hastily crammed into a broom cupboard when women started getting academic jobs - there is nothing like enough space to be worth trudging up three flights of stairs in the hope of finding one empty. There rarely is an empty one, as the admin staff (predominantly female) are based on the third floor.
The GN ones are traditional block loos, with a row of cubicles and sinks opposite, so anyone washing her hands after changing a tampon, or anyone needing to wash a Mooncup has to do it in mixed company or hang about waiting to get some single-sex privacy, thus lingering in one of the cubicles for longer than necessary.
I don't think that this is untypical - it is far easier to 'convert' a Ladies' loo to GN, as there is no urinal problem and anyone can use a cubicle. 'Conversion' amounts to changing the sign on the door. The fact that women take longer to pee, even without any of this, is not taken into account - we just have to queue, and if we are late for a meeting or class, so be it. Complaints are met with accusations of not wanting to find or accept solutions. See posts on here passim if you are in any doubt about that.
The building is open 24/7 as there are computers for student use and a PG library in there, so there will be times when it is quiet, too. I am not there very often or much after 6.00 these days, but I don't think I'd be very keen to use them later on. At least when they were Ladies' loos a man wandering in would be noticeably suspicious, so anyone spotting him would be alert and could call security. Now, you just have to hope he's not a rapist.
