Female staff won't use MoD's new gender neutral toilets as they smell
Female staff refuse to use cash-strapped MoD’s new £15,000 gender neutral toilets because they are ‘too smelly’
- Thirteen toilets turned from single-sex bathrooms to mixed loos at Whitehall HQ
- But a female civil servant has revealed no women feel comfortable using them
- She said: ‘I don’t go anywhere near the gender-neutral loos as they’re too smelly’
Female staff have refused to use the cash-strapped Ministry of Defence’s new £15,000 gender neutral toilets because they are ‘too smelly’.
Thirteen cubicles were turned from single-sex bathrooms to mixed loos at its headquarters in Whitehall.
But a female civil servant has revealed no women feel comfortable using them as ‘I don’t want to hear a man going to the toilet’.
Thirteen cubicles were turned from single-sex bathrooms to mixed loos at its headquarters in Whitehall (pictured)
She told the Mirror: ‘I don’t go anywhere near the new gender-neutral 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.’
But a female civil servant has revealed no women feel comfortable using them as ‘I don’t want to hear a man going to the toilet’ (file photo)
Labels on the loos were changed from male and female to just toilet and sanitary towel dispensers were put in.
The price of the transformation came to £14,886, according to an FOI request.
An MoD spokesman said: ‘Like several other government departments, we offer gender neutral facilities as part of our modern and inclusive working environment.’
Last year the MoD announced the Army would introduce ‘gender and age-neutral’ fitness tests.
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