[Tagging] Better term for unisex

[martianfreeloader]

Hi Amanda,

No.

What puzzles non-native speakers (including myself) is that English has 
a clear distinction between sex and gender (other than, for example, 
German). Yet, the term "unisex" (contains the word "sex") is used to 
designate a situation in the "gender" category, not sex.

Can you help?


On 10/10/2022 19:37, Amanda McCann wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:05 +02:00, Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The proposal currently states:
>>> Meaning of the unisex <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:unisex>=yes is currently unclear:
>>>
>>>   * gender neutral facility (as the "unisex" term in English); or
>>>   * facility that accessible for men and women, either segregated or not.
>> I do not understand what is unclear.  The term unisex is well
>> understood among English speakers to mean "gender neutral".
> 
> I'm a native English speaker, and I agree! I also wrote that part of the wiki (years ago). I think some non-native speakers treated `unisex=yes` as meaning “gender segregated but male & female are available”, i.e. read that paragraph as “some OSMers might have been wrong, and we don't know how many unisex=yes/no tags in OSM were affected by the misunderstanding”
>