Equality Tasmania and activist Rodney Croome are determined to shut down opposition to gender-neutral toilets, branding women’s legitimate concerns as “mischievous misinformation.”
In their posts, they reassure everyone that male and female toilets won’t be replaced — these new facilities are just helpful extras for trans people, parents, and those with accessibility needs. They’re “completely self-contained” and perfectly safe, they claim. Anyone raising concerns is apparently spreading lies.
This is textbook gaslighting.
Women across Australia and the UK have made their position brutally clear: we want single-sex toilets and changing rooms. Not as an optional extra. As the default. Because privacy, dignity, and safety actually matter.
The Polls They Don’t Want You to See
Australia (ACL / toilets.org.au poll):
87% of Australians oppose replacing single-sex toilets with all-gender options.
Over 90% of women agree.
Privacy is the top concern. Women repeatedly say they would rather “hold it” than use mixed facilities.
UK (Sex Matters / JL Partners poll, March 2026):
- 86% prefer single-sex changing rooms in gyms and leisure centres
- 86% for changing rooms and showers at work
- 81% for public toilets (parks)
- 81% for toilets in pubs/entertainment venues
- 78% for workplace toilets
Only 19-21% think transgender people should be allowed to use whichever facilities they prefer. Almost half of men (and large numbers of women) say trans-identified people should use facilities matching their sex at birth.
These numbers are overwhelming. They cut across age, region, and (mostly) politics. Yet Equality Tasmania and Rodney Croome label women’s very reasonable fears “mischievous misinformation.”
That’s not advocacy. That’s contempt for the majority — especially women.
Why Women Are Right to Push Back
Real-world evidence from the UK, Canada, and parts of Australia shows exactly why single-sex spaces exist: higher rates of voyeurism, discomfort, and incidents in mixed facilities. Girls skipping school, women avoiding public toilets altogether, hidden cameras in changing areas — these aren’t hypotheticals. They’re documented.
Dismissing this as “misinformation” while construction codes quietly allow up to 50% of new public toilets to become all-gender is deeply dishonest. It puts ideology ahead of biology, safety, and basic human dignity.
Equality Tasmania and Rodney Croome aren’t “setting the record straight.” They’re erasing women’s boundaries and expecting applause for it.
The public has spoken — loudly and consistently in both countries. Over 80% (often 85-90% among women) want single-sex facilities protected.
Women are not mischievous for refusing to surrender their safety and privacy.
Organisations that shame us for it are the ones out of step.
It’s time decision-makers in Tasmania — and across Australia — listened to women and the clear majority, not to activists who treat female concerns as a punchline.
Single-sex spaces aren’t bigotry. They’re basic safeguarding.
And no amount of smearing will change that.