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Shared bathrooms: Moving from rhetoric to redesign

The idea of gender-neutral toilets has spilled over from academic debate and mainstream media commentary into architectural briefs. The boundaries of shared bathrooms in public spaces, workplaces and schools have become a flashpoint for divisive arguments about safety and diversity, sex and gender, politics and society. Even the Australian Prime Minister has been drawn into the sudden flood of toilet talk, bristling at the appearance

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