ABSTRACT
The sex assigned to bodies at birth, argues Elizabeth Grosz, is very different from the corporeality developed by the social subject and the modes of its subjectivity. Recent scholarship has focused on public toilets in relation to sex-segregation and accessibility, highlighting issues of citizenship, social justice and social inclusion. Modern public toilets in Western societies became largely popular with the urbanisation of towns. However, these facilities were initially only designed for men, which limited women's presence and mobility within the urban space. The stigmatisation of trans in public toilets has been aggravated by ever-growing awareness of personal and public hygiene; the problem of the management and disposal of human waste means that notions of the unclean. The architecture of today's public toilets is still maintained as a locus of control that functions as a microscope. Many trans communities, queer theorists and equal rights campaigners have called for unisex toilets as a possibility of resolving the sex segregation of public toilets.
