Should all stores introduce gender neutral changing rooms?
Topshop has abolished gender-specific changing rooms after receiving complaints from transgender customers.
A spokesperson for Topshop has confirmed that their changing rooms are now gender-neutral spaces.
“All Topshop and Topman customers are free to use any of the fitting rooms located within our stores,” they told Mail Online. The communication from Arcadia read: ‘As part of our commitment to equal opportunities and non-discrimination, we felt our policy needed updating.’
However, not everyone agreed with the change of policy with one raising concerns that it could make Topshop’s target market – teenage girls – feel uncomfortable.
Urban Outfitters has managed to successfully implement a gender neutral changing room policy
Urban Outfitters has managed to implement the gender neutral changing policy, so the next question is … how many other stores will follow?
What are your views? Is this the way forward in our ever-changing world? Would you be happy to share changing rooms with one and all? Would this make you feel uncomfortable when trying on clothes or is this a practical solution? Do you think other clothing stores should follow suit?
