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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?

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