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The government s current consultation on toilets, entitled Toilet provision for men and women: call for evidence, places the provision of gender-neutral desegregated facilities and the safety of trans and gender non-conforming people who rely on them, under threat.
This consultation is dog-whistle politics, motivated not by improving access to public toilets, but in suppressing the rights of trans and gender non-conforming people. From the government s pitiful reform of the Gender Recognition Act in 2020, to the recent high court ruling to restrict children under 16 from accessing puberty-blocking drugs, it is yet another attack in the on-going culture war that seeks to dehumanise and remove trans people from public life.
Architects should oppose plans to change toilet design rules Digital Edition: Architects should oppose plans to change toilet design rules Plans to steer Building Regulations towards segregated WCs are an attack on trans rights, writes UVW-SAW’s Tatiana Whiting
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Why Powder Rooms Are the Best Place in the House to Take Decorating Risks
Here, a brief design history of the humble half bath.
By Kelsey Keith Stephen Karlisch
While every bit of our homes has gotten more usage during the past year in quarantine, never before have our humble sinks seemed quite so ho-hum. Even brass swan taps lovingly sourced from estate sales inevitably bear the brunt of so much handwashing and hand-wringing. Woe, indeed, is the washbasin.
But the hygienic realities of the half bath have historically been tempered, at least with euphemisms if not with a decorative flair that belies the room’s intended usage. (Did we mention the brass swan taps?) Our current chapter in domestic hygiene, blighted as it is by COVID-19, arrives in the wake of two centuries of engineering innovation alongside evolving social mores the advent of indoor plumbing; a lavatory for guests’ use while what we commonly call “powder rooms” came to prominence even earlier.
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