Prestigious co-ed Brisbane State High School recently converted its P Block of female-only toilets to accommodate for either sex.
Since then, male students have been accused of intimidating female classmates outside the unisex block and urinating over toilet seats and sanitary bins, the Courier Mail reported.
The decision to change the bathroom’s gender restrictions is required by the state’s Department of Education and Queensland Human Rights Commission.
So now girls (and women) must endure the ungovernable smell that arises from urine being distributed all over the floor of loo cubicles. This is a public health matter (as well as yet more violence against women and girls) and authorities should step in to say that women and girls are at least entitled to carry out excretory functions in comfort, privacy, without unliveable stench and without risk of health.
Given the known problems this causes for girls and women, why are the boys bathrooms made unisex?
The Queensland Human Rights Commission misunderstood the law, as is gradually being recognised around the world.