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Not sure if this post is good for this area or should be put else where but here goes nothing. I have to say before ever using womens bathrooms I thought oh they must be so clean because mens bathrooms are not so clean But after transitioning into a woman and using public bathrooms some womens bathrooms in public are really dirty. Like toliet seats. Clean up after your self. Iv hovered before because of the seat not being clean. Or having to take toliet paper to cover all parts of the seat before sitting down.
I try to do all my stuff before leaving the house and only use the bathrooms out in public if I have to. Though I try to use department store bathrooms than say just normal mall bathrooms.

Yeah the woman's rooms can be so nasty.

I just don't understand why some public restrooms don't have those little trashcan things in the stalls for hygienic products, and then feel the need to post signs in all the stalls saying not to flush them.

I've been lucky so far.  Men's have still been the nastiest.

I do get a happy kick out of the writing on the stalls in the women's room though.  In men's it's almost always homophobia and other ick.  Latest see on the women's stall: I love my husband.

My wife who has experience on both sides of the aisle says that women's room can be pretty gross

Basically, washrooms intended for either gender that are not cleaned consistently will be rank. Washrooms that are given regular custodial attention will not be,

   I hate to touch anything in them and the smell can be worst than a stockyard in spring.Kinda makes me glad to still have the hose but its getting harder to find it!Won't even touch the door I use
a paper towel or a piece of tp.

Yeah, I've wondered about some people's "kids" too...I mean, come on, if you pee on the seat, wipe it up!

And I don't know how #2 gets smeared on the seat, but dayum....bus stations are THE WORST. Wal-Mart runs a close second...

I still prefer them over the men's ;D

Overall Women's are better than men's and certainly I avoid Bus terminal, the lower the store the worse, College is better than lower class stores

Always hang my purse on a hook on the door don't put it on the floor, and disinfect the purse weekly!  ;D also wipe down my cellphone with alcohol due to using restrooms  :) just for safety! But really I HATED men's room's and always used the stalls for privacy.

Since I was a little kid I always preferred the mens' to the womens'.  What on earth is appealing about sitting on a toilet which is probably covered in several other people's urine, right next to a stinking bin full of nastiness and baby poo?  No thanks.  I'd rather take the risk of someone not being able to aim very well because at least then it's on my shoes and not my skin.  Or you might end up with somewhere that just smells of urinal cakes, and call me weird, but I've always liked that smell.

At work, we have one public unisex restroom and then another private restroom for ourselves. We keep both clean. I even check it regularly throughout the day to make sure no one has trashed it. I hate dirty restrooms and always put paper on the seat in public ones.

Call me funny but when I would use mens bathrooms before transition I always used the stalls. I hated urnals. No Thanks. LOL No I don't care cause its womens bathrooms all the time. I also find it funny how the sink area is always wet from water. LOL

Quote from: Lanalicious34 on May 27, 2013, 07:21:40 PM
Call me funny but when I would use mens bathrooms before transition I always used the stalls. I hated urnals. No Thanks. LOL No I don't care cause its womens bathrooms all the time. I also find it funny how the sink area is always wet from water. LOL

Yes I notice this is a big difference from men's rooms, men nefer wash their hands, go in do their business and walk out

aaaa!  EEWWWW! never could get over that! and they never talk! no couch  or do makeup, oh yeah no makeup! I like being a girl oops wrong thread

Me? I'm just happy that you no longer see Izal toilet rolls.

For those outside the UK Izal toilet paper was common in the North of England, mainly found in schools. It was toilet paper created no doubt by a bunch of sadomasochists and you sometimes also found this toilet 'paper' in pub toilets in certain areas of town. It was also sold in shops as the cheapest toilet roll, the sort nobody bought.

The use of the word 'paper' when referring to Izal is stretching the meaning of the word 'paper' like knicker elastic. It was supposed to be strong and medicated to prevent the spread of germs. It had the feel and consistency of rather glossy tracing paper. It was tough and tearing it took some effort.

Not being absorbent at all Izal didn't remove the after effects of your jobby. It simply spread it even thinner so that after several attempts your backside resembled one half of a Marmite or Vegemite sandwich. You ended up having to scrape the residue off and then wrap some more Izal round your finger for a final bit of 'keyhole surgery'.

It left you with a rather nasty itch. Sitting comfortably wasn't an option. You walked funny for the rest of the afternoon and farting made the itch worse but if you tried to hold it in sitting and walking would become more difficult.

Trust me, Izal was nasty.

Quote from: StellaB on May 27, 2013, 08:23:27 PM
Me? I'm just happy that you no longer see Izal toilet rolls.

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Do you not have available in stores at all little packs of like we have here what we call as a brand name "Kleenex" facial tissues they come in ten packs you can pack them in your purse and use them yourself or carry wet wipes? If that is what was in the public stalls , I would certainly be that prepared! and I carry my own tissues right now anyway! Even in my backpack riding my bicycle!

Quote from: StellaB on May 27, 2013, 08:23:27 PM
Me? I'm just happy that you no longer see Izal toilet rolls.

For those outside the UK Izal toilet paper was common in the North of England, mainly found in schools. It was toilet paper created no doubt by a bunch of sadomasochists and you sometimes also found this toilet 'paper' in pub toilets in certain areas of town. It was also sold in shops as the cheapest toilet roll, the sort nobody bought.

The use of the word 'paper' when referring to Izal is stretching the meaning of the word 'paper' like knicker elastic. It was supposed to be strong and medicated to prevent the spread of germs. It had the feel and consistency of rather glossy tracing paper. It was tough and tearing it took some effort.

Not being absorbent at all Izal didn't remove the after effects of your jobby. It simply spread it even thinner so that after several attempts your backside resembled one half of a Marmite or Vegemite sandwich. You ended up having to scrape the residue off and then wrap some more Izal round your finger for a final bit of 'keyhole surgery'.

It left you with a rather nasty itch. Sitting comfortably wasn't an option. You walked funny for the rest of the afternoon and farting made the itch worse but if you tried to hold it in sitting and walking would become more difficult.

Trust me, Izal was nasty.

was it in squares rather than rolled?

Quote from: vegie271 on May 27, 2013, 07:29:49 PM
and they never talk! no couch  or do makeup, oh yeah no makeup! I like being a girl oops wrong thread

I can understand why you might feel that way. Coming from the other side of the fence, that's one of the reasons why I far prefer using the men's: people tend to leave you alone! ;D I always hated the social aspects of women's toilets. It's so nice to be using the right toilets now, where I can just do my business, have plenty of sinks available so I can wash my hands, and then get the heck out of there. ;)

Oh, and since Stella mentioned Izal (which is exactly as bad as she describes), I've had the (dis)pleasure of using some public toilets in various parts of the UK where not only do they give you that grease-proof paper to wipe with, but the toilets are made of stainless steel and they have no seats on them. So if you need to sit down, you have to sit on a freezing cold, wet piece of metal that you can't wipe down because of the aforementioned Izal.  :o

Another thing you see in some public toilets in the UK is blue lighting. I don't know whether you've seen this in other countries, but some of the sleazier public toilets have replaced all their light bulbs with blue bulbs because you can't see the veins in your arms under blue light. Classy.

But would you like the ultimate in toilet grossness?

Try going to Africa (and other parts of the Third World), where in some very rural locations they have drop-pit toilets. These are basically just a big hole in the ground, with a wooden shack constructed over them. The shack has a bench in it with a hole cut in the middle: you do your business on that seat and it just drops into the pit below. No water. No flushing. Just metres and metres of other people's previous business from the past month or two, festering together in a great big hole under the hot African sun. The smell (and the flies!) will shock anyone who's never left the First World. And because there's no running water, you can't wash your hands afterwards either.

Trust me. Gender is the last thing that comes to mind when you're sitting in a drop-pit toilet. ;)

I have used some toliet paper in public bathrooms and its been ruff not soft at all and it sure as heck not name brand quality stuff. I almost feel like I should be bringing a roll with me in my purse just incase I use a public bathroom with ruff paper.

Quote from: FTMDiaries on May 28, 2013, 09:08:10 AM
I can understand why you might feel that way. Coming from the other side of the fence, that's one of the reasons why I far prefer using the men's: people tend to leave you alone! ;D I always hated the social aspects of women's toilets. It's so nice to be using the right toilets now, where I can just do my business, have plenty of sinks available so I can wash my hands, and then get the heck out of there. ;)


Try going to Africa (and other parts of the Third World), where in some very rural locations they have drop-pit toilets. These are basically just a big hole in the ground, with a wooden shack constructed over them. The shack has a bench in it with a hole cut in the middle: you do your business on that seat and it just drops into the pit below. No water. No flushing. Just metres and metres of other people's previous business from the past month or two, festering together in a great big hole under the hot African sun. The smell (and the flies!) will shock anyone who's never left the First World. And because there's no running water, you can't wash your hands afterwards either.

1) Of course for you, your a guy, that is where you fit!

2) I do go camping so I can do it, but when I am in civilisation I want comfort and cleanliness and I like the social (really want a door too)

I hate public bathrooms anyway, but when it comes to the genders, generally women's washrooms are sooo much cleaner than the men's... or at least, women's bodily secretions and odours are not as strong and stenching as men's.

Sometimes the women's washrooms are terribly unimmaculate, but those are few and far between. When I need to go and there's no one in the men's, I will use it, but most of the time, perhaps 98% of the time, I will use the women's.

Way safer!

Quote from: FTMDiaries on May 28, 2013, 09:08:10 AM
But would you like the ultimate in toilet grossness?

Try going to Africa (and other parts of the Third World), where in some very rural locations they have drop-pit toilets. These are basically just a big hole in the ground, with a wooden shack constructed over them. The shack has a bench in it with a hole cut in the middle: you do your business on that seat and it just drops into the pit below. No water. No flushing. Just metres and metres of other people's previous business from the past month or two, festering together in a great big hole under the hot African sun. The smell (and the flies!) will shock anyone who's never left the First World. And because there's no running water, you can't wash your hands afterwards either.

Trust me. Gender is the last thing that comes to mind when you're sitting in a drop-pit toilet. ;)

In the Philippines, going to the toilet generally requires one's hands and a small bucket (called a 'tabo'), so when you go into the toilets, especially when it comes to defecating, you will have to use one hand to pour water down your rear, and the other one to help clean the area... XD

I think as First Worlders, we often forget about the good that we have over here, in terms of comfort, convenience, and money. There are so many people dealing with more issues than one, and if I were to be in Africa, my very first thing that would pop up for me as a woman would be safety. As a woman, being raped or having sex against your own will is a too common occurrence there! :(

Just wanted to add when I used to use the female bathroom I ALWAYS hover and always covered the whole seat with two layers of toilet paper if I need to sit. I've done this since forever, I won't even use the first square of toilet paper on the roll, I always toss it because I can't stand the thought of some female with stuff on her hands possibly having touched that piece that i'm about to use, so I toss it.

However now that i've switched to the guys bathroom, sometimes it sucks, I've been in several stalls with pee on the seat, which is gross since the seat's supposed to be up anyways, but over-all I've found the men's bathroom not only smells better but it more clean. However you see a lot more guys not washing their hands after doing their business than girls, which just grosses me out...

You know when ever I've been in the women's room for what ever reason it was at the time, it was always really clean and smelled nice.

I lived in very rural north Idaho for a bit, and used an outhouse. I also had friends who had outhouses. "Running water" was when we tipped the water jug to the side. Toilets were common if one had an actual house, but there are a lot of people who live waaaayy back in the woods who don't have modern conveniences...like toilets, telephone, electricity. A common dwelling among the mountain-folk was a 30 year-old camper trailer with a one-room cabin attached.

I'm not sure if they chose that lifestyle, or if it is extreme poverty. (For us, we initially chose it, but once the romance of "roughing it" wore off...well, "north Idaho" is synonymous with "extreme poverty", and we were trapped there for a couple years).

Over here it's a mix of which is worse. I used one bathroom yesterday and as I sat down I saw what appeared to be blood on the wall, and my instant thought was "Weird.. this isn't the ladies room.."

Overall the smell is worse in the men's room, thanks to those of little aim combined with poor choice in materials (so they don't clean as easily).