Gender-neutral public toilets in Berlin (again)

I'm in Berlin for Open Knowledge Festival, and keeping an eye out for gender-neutral toilets as I go. So far I haven't found any in restaurants, clubs, bars etc. (not that I'm really here for clubbing!) and REFUGE Restrooms only have three entries for the city. If you know where the gender-neutral toilets are here, please let me know or add them directly to the REFUGE Restrooms directory!

I am impressed with the Berlin public toilets, though. Here are some pictures I took of a City Toilette: it's wheelchair accessible, non-gendered, and has instructions for use in four languages. Note that unless you have a EuroKey, it costs 50 cents to use the toilet.

I also discovered that in the Kino in der Kulturbrauerei, the women's toilets have a urinal:

This is something I haven't seen before, and I'd welcome opinions on whether this is useful or not!

None of the toilets at the venue are gender-neutral, but OKFest put a sign up to convert one, and also marked it on the map. They responded quickly when I told them I couldn't find it!

.@RachelKnowler The sign on the door called down! Thanks for telling us, we'll put it up again now! #genderneutral #OKFest14
— OKFestival (@OKFestival) July 17, 2014

Woo, gender-neutral restrooms! I like this design for the label, too. :) #okest14 pic.twitter.com/GK5kY8TfEJ

— Rae Knowler (@RachelKnowler) July 17, 2014

Unisex toilets in Berlin!

Good news from Berlin: the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg decided to bring unisex toilets to all its public buildings a year ago, and now the borough of Mitte might follow suit.

The Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg measure was proposed by the Pirate Party and supported by the Left, Social Democrat and Green parties on the borough council. (The Christian Democrats were against it.) The Pirates have now also asked the borough council in Mitte to find out which public buildings there are suitable for unisex toilets. They want to keep the men's and women's options, but add a third room as an extra choice, with the aim of making life easier for trans* and intersex people. Public finances in Berlin are tight, but the Pirates point out that changing signs on toilet doors would be practically cost-neutral.

Many public buildings there don't yet have wheelchair-accessible toilets. The Pirate Party representative Lena Rohrbach acknowledged that this was also very important, and emphasised that the groups should not be played off against one another. I heartily agree.

Sources:

• 'Eine für alle', Berliner Zeitung (German | Google Translate)
• 'Mittes Piraten fordern Unisex-Toiletten in öffentlichen Gebäuden', Berliner Woche (German | Google Translate)
• 'Bezirksamt prüft Unisex-Klos in öffentlichen Gebäuden', Berliner Woche (German | Google Translate)