'How many gender-neutral children does the council think are going to be using the soft play ball pit?' 'I am not sure exactly why they have to be unisex - why couldn't they have done half of them for men and half of them for women, with maybe two gender-neutral? 'One father told me it ran the risk of being a perverts' paradise because they were gender neutral. One mother told MailOnline: 'Anyone can use these toilets really because they are public conveniences, but people have gone mad about it. The £1.99 stainless steel badges show merged symbols for a man and woman, with the design appearing to show them holding hands. New facilities in King George's Playing Fields in Brentwood were opened by the Mayor, Councillor Olivia Sanders, in March to much fanfare.īut joy over a new pavillion building, complete with soft play and sensory room is rapidly turned to disgust over the council's choice of lavatories.Ī few steps away from a children's ball pit are eight gender-neutral toilets that are the centre of parental storm. The town where The Only Way is Essex is filmed is at the centre of a trans rights row - after a £7million children's play area was fitted with gender-neutral toilets.
