Urinals removed from university, public angry: First unisex toilets introduced in Slovenia

The emergence of the first unisex toilets in Slovenia is accompanied with ideological and political controversy, with the removal of classic urinals for men from the Faculty of Political Science in Ljubljana drawing particular attention.

A part of the public sees the introduction of unisex toilets and the removal of urinals as a left-wing provocation and a fad to impose so-called gender ideology into the educational system, while others say this represents catching up with the spirit of the times, Slovenian media report.

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"We live in the 21st century"

"We have many transgender people who feel threatened in classic toilets because they are attacked for being different. We are living in the 21st century and we want such people to feel safe, this is the least we can do," the dean of the Faculty, Monika Kalin Golob, told the Siol.net portal.

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"If we want to be inclusive and progressive, then we need to allow as many people as possible to feel comfortable and this is a step forward in this direction," Nina Pejic, director of the Institute for Gender Equality Studies, told Slovenian media.

A very different opinion about unisex toilets comes from conservative portals and associations.

Conservatives write about symbolic castration

Editors of the Domovina portal wonder whether removing urinals from an elite educational institution, where many future Slovenian politicians get their education, is a kind of "symbolic castration" of the male gender, imitating fashionable trends from abroad.

In addition, experience from abroad already indicates that the introduction of such toilets, locker rooms and showers causes a host of privacy-related problems, writes the conservative portal.

"It should be kept in mind that this is not about toilets, but about an ideology that is increasingly aggressively penetrating our society, through indoctrination in education and extortion of LGBT rights and movements. The aggressive minority imposes its views and lifestyles on the whole society and wants to silence anyone who is warning about the pitfalls and absurdities of an ideology that is aggressively spreading here," writes the conservative portal Domovina.

(Telegraf.rs/Index.hr)