In the changing village model everyone gets changed inside locked cubicles, then they put their clothes in the lockers provided. Showers are poolside and everyone showers in their costumes. Larger cubicles for families and the disabled are provided in the village.
Separate Ladies and Gents toilets are usually between the changing area and the showers.
Using a changing village as a single man feels entirely soulless, a mixture of closed doors, cramped cubicles and hygienic washable surfaces.
Banning naked showers in the men's changing room as practice for a changing village is ridiculous. The pool will have to be closed for several days for the changing room to changing village refit, when it reopens it will be so obvious that the changing village and showers are a mixed area that no one will consider changing in the open where there are no benches or hooks available.
In this case the needs of transsexuals being the deciding factor in refitting changing rooms is just an excuse designed to blame an unpopular group for an unnecessary change. There already seem to be cubicles in both changing rooms and the transsexuals can use these.
At one of my local sports centre health spas there is a notice saying that someone was recently reported to the police for misbehaviour and that the police will be called if anyone misbehaves again. The notice had been up for 5 years when I last saw it so perhaps calling the police is less f an issue that might be assumed.
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