I am begging the people who design public bathrooms, stop putting disabled toilets in between the two other bathrooms and making the area between them all a super narrow walkway. My wheelchair takes up 75% of it which means if I need to wait for the disabled toilet (which I always do) I’m also going to be blocking the entry to one of the gendered toilets, (almost always the women’s). If you’re going to make all disabled people + families + people who don’t want to use a gendered bathroom (because the disabled toilet also usually doubles as a family/ungendered bathroom) share one toilet at least give us wheelchair users a little cutout in the hall to sit in so I’m not constantly having to press myself against the wall and instructing groups of people to go around me like a traffic controller.
Also I am begging you, please, if you’re going to lock the toilet and make us go get a key to unlock it, PUT A SIGN UP. I sat in this narrow hallway like a purple traffic cone for 20 minutes before a cleaner told me no one was in there and it was just “occupied” because they’d locked it to stop people using it like a changing room 🙃
